500 nations
an illustrated history of North American Indians : based on a documentary filmscript by Jack Leustig ... [et al.].
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Contributions
- Leustig, Jack. - Contributor
Publication
1995 - Hutchinson, London, England
Language
English
Word Count
117,000 words, Guess
Page Count
468 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100091791480
- ISBN-100712674217
- ISBN-139780091791483
- ISBN-139780712674218
- LibraryThing100665
and 3 more
- Better World Books9780712674218
- Better World Books9780091791483
- Open LibraryOL22815820M
Classifications
- DDC970.00497
- LCCE77 .J787 1994
Description
This is the stirring, crowded, epic story - laden with courageous deeds and dreams fulfilled and betrayed - of the hundreds of Indian nations that have inhabited our continent for more than 15,000 years and their centuries-long struggle with the Europeans who arrived in ever-increasing hordes after 1492. Here is American history from the Native American point of view - a long saga of friendship, treachery, war, and ultimately the loss of homeland that began when Columbus disembarked at Hispaniola among the Arawaks, and came to a climax when the last groups of Sioux moved onto a reservation following the battle of Wounded Knee in 1890. 500 Nations is a story of leaders, customs, political systems, and ways of life - of men and women whom we meet through their own words, and others whose achievements have been resurrected from memory, memoir, and ancient documents.
First Sentence
On an unusually mild December day in 1890, a small band of hungry, desperate Miniconjou Sioux-120 men and 230 women and children, led by their ailing chief, Big Foot-hurried across the hills of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
Excerpt
On an unusually mild December day in 1890, a small band of hungry, desperate Miniconjou Sioux-120 men and 230 women and children, led by their ailing chief, Big Foot-hurried across the hills of South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
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