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Quanah Parker, Comanche Chief
Quanah Parker is a figure of almost mythical proportions on the Southern Plains. The son of Cynthia Parker, a white captive whose subsequent return to white society and early death had become a Texas frontier legend, Quanah rose from able warrior to tribal leader on the Comanche reservation. Other books about Quanah Parker have been incomplete, are outdated, or are lacking in scholarly analysis. William T. Hagan, the author of United States-Comanche Relations, knows Comanche history. This new biography, written in a crisp and readable style, is a well-balanced portrait of Quanah Parker, the chief, and Quanah, the man torn between two worlds. Between 1875 and his death in 1911, Quanah strove ...
American Indians
This is a concise account of Indian-white relations which has become one of the standard histories of the subject. Questions concerning Indian jurisdiction in their nations within a nation have been tested in cases relating to issues such as water and fishing rights and the Indians' exercise of their traditional religions.
Taking Indian Lands
Examines the Cherokee Commission of 1889 and the U.S. strategies to negotiate the purchase of Indian land thus opening it up to white settlers.
The Sac and Fox Indians
Studies the causes and events of the tragic Black Hawk War, in which the Sacs and Foxes were finally dispossessed
Theodore Roosevelt and Six Friends of the Indian
Each of these men attempted to influence the implementation of Indian policy. All had had some contact with Roosevelt prior to his presidency, and some had sought his intercession on Indian affairs when he served as Civil Service commissioner, governor of New York, and U.S. vice president.
Charles Goodnight
Biography of one of the most important cattlemen of the American West
The American Indian
Important Events in Native American History
Scoundrel in the Thick
1882. When his best friend's fiancée is kidnapped, an unlikely hero must battle robber barons, bandits, the US Cavalry, and Cheyenne warriors. Along the way he will also have to foil a plot to steal a country.
The Plains Indians of the Twentieth Century
Essays consider water rights, wartime participation, religious heritage, open reservations, economic issues, tribal leadership, and the Indian rights movement
