wars

Explores the events leading up to and surrounding the killing of 200 Shoshoni men, women, and children at Bear River in 1883. Discusses how this event impacted relations between Native Americans and the U.S. and traces its modern legacy.

Examines the mass relocation of the Cherokee nation during the nineteenth century and how the Civil War affected them as a people and a nation.

Looks at the Plains Indian Wars, focusing on the path to war, what it was like to live through these conflicts, and how it affected people on both sides.

Presents information on the first units of U.S military that were composed exclusively of African-Americans, called Buffalo Soldiers, that patrolled the frontiers of the Southwest.

Presents the diary of the wife of General George Armstrong Custer, focusing on their life on the Great Plains from 1873 to 1876, when Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were clearing the way for the Northern Pacific Railroad and battling Native Americans.

Chronicles the seventeenth-century war that killed more than ten percent of the Native Americans and English colonists living in the region of New England, discussing the events that led to the conflict, as well as its legacy.

Traces the history of the Apaches in the American Southwest from the early sixteenth century to the end of resistance in 1886; and describes how their way of life changed as a result of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and American expansion into their territory.

Chronicles the 1877 Buffalo Soldier Tragedy, in which a troop of buffalo soldiers and hunters set out into the Llano Estacado in pursuit of a band of raiding Kwahada Comanches, and were forced to resort to desperate measures to avoid dying of thirst.

Contains a collection of periodicals, letters, and military records that explores the experiences of Buffalo Soldiers who served in the American West; and describes their campaigns, daily lives, and interactions with white communities.