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Reaping the whirlwind

the Apache wars
1998
Examines the question of why policy makers and leaders on both sides of the Apache conflict sowed winds of injustice, hatred, and violence throughout the Southwest for three decades.

Wounded Knee, 1890

the end of the Plains Indian wars
1998
Narrates the events leading up to the massacre which marked the end of a long succession of wars between whites and Indians, and concludes with a description of the battle itself.

Night of the cruel moon

Cherokee removal and the Trail of Tears
1996
A narrative history of the removal by white Americans of the Cherokee peoples from their eastern homeland to the Indian Territory now known as Oklahoma.
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