Bowes, John P.

Provides an account of the Black Hawk War, a conflict sparked in 1832 when elderly Sauk warrior Black Hawk led a band of Sauk and Mesquakie Indians--part of a group that had agreed to cede all the tribe's lands east of the Mississippi River to the U.S. government--back to their traditional homeland in Illinois to grow corn as they did every year.

Traces the history of the Choctaw tribe of the lower Mississippi Valley, discussing how they survived as individuals and sovereign tribes during the removal policy of the nineteenth century, how they protected their beliefs and culture, and how they adapted to a a new way of life.

Provides an account of the Black Hawk War, a conflict sparked in 1832 when elderly Sauk warrior Black Hawk led a band of Sauk and Mesquakie Indians--part of a group that had agreed to cede all the tribe's lands east of the Mississippi River to the U.S. government--back to their traditional homeland in Illinois to grow corn as they did every year.

Provides an account of the U.S. government's removal of the Cherokee people from their lands east of the Mississippi River in the 1830s, discussing the Supreme Court cases that preceded the movement west, the Trail of Tears, attempts to unite rival Cherokee tribes in the new territory, and the removal's legacy.