Defining Moments in American History: American Indian Removal and the Trail to Wounded Knee
Defining Moments in American History: American Indian Removal and the Trail to Wounded Knee
Editor/Author
Hillstrom, Laurie Collier
Publication Year: 2010
Publisher: Omnigraphics, Inc.
Single-User Purchase Price:
$54.00

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$81.00
ISBN: 978-1-78402-618-9
Category: History - United States -- History
Image Count:
45
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Provides a detailed account of American Indian Removal policy and its culmination at the massacre at Wounded Knee, including its social and political legacy in modern America. Includes a narrative overview, biographies, primary source documents, and other helpful features.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- How to Use This Book
- Research Topics for American Indian Removal and the Trail to Wounded Knee
- NARRATIVE OVERVIEW
- Prologue
- Chapter One: European Colonization of the “New World”
- Chapter Two: A Vanishing Way of Life
- Chapter Three: Standing in the Way of Westward Expansion
- Chapter Four: Sitting Bull and the Sioux Wars
- Chapter Five: The Massacre at Wounded Knee
- Chapter Six: American Indians in a White World
- Chapter Seven: The Legacy of Wounded Knee
- BIOGRAPHIES
- Big Foot (c. 1820-1890): Chief of the Lakota Band Massacred at Wounded Knee
- Crazy Horse (c. 1841-1877): Lakota Warrior and Resistance Leader
- George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876): U.S. Cavalry Leader Killed in the Battle of Little Bighorn
- Andrew Jackson (1767-1845): U.S. President Who Signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830
- Red Cloud (c. 1822-1909): Lakota Chief and Resistance Leader
- John Ross (1790-1866): Cherokee Chief during the Trail of Tears
- Sitting Bull (1831-1890): Lakota Chief and Holy Man
- Wovoka (c. 1856-1932): Paiute Prophet Who Created the Ghost Dance Religion
- PRIMARY SOURCES
- Tecumseh Calls for Indian Unity against the White Invaders
- Andrew Jackson Praises Indian Removal
- Cherokee Chief John Ross Denounces Indian Removal Policies
- A Cheyenne Recalls the Deadly Impact of Cholera on His Tribe
- Negotiating the Fort Laramie Treaty of 1868
- Eyewitness Recollections of the Battle of Little Bighorn
- White Officials Call for Dismantling of the “Tribal Organization”
- A Lakota Indian Recalls the Ghost Dance
- A BIA Assessment of the Causes of Lakota Discontent
- Black Elk Recounts the Massacre at Wounded Knee
- Looking for Survivors at Wounded Knee
- Life at an Indian Boarding School
- Indian Activists Issue the Alcatraz Proclamation
- One Indian's Perspective on Modern Society and Traditional Ways
- American Indians Take Stock on the Bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Important People, Places, and Terms
- Chronology
- Sources for Further Study
- Bibliography
- Photo and Illustration Credits