![]() ![]() The Indians were herded off their ancestral lands into ever-shrinking reservations, and were starved and killed if they resisted. Again and again, promises made to the Indians fell victim to the ruthlessness and greed of settlers pushing westward to make new lives. ![]() During these three decades, America's population doubled from 31 million to 62 million. Beginning with the Long Walk of the Navajos in 1860 and ending 30 years later with the massacre of Sioux men, women, and children at Wounded Knee in South Dakota, it tells how the American Indians lost their land and lives to a dynamically expanding white society. The story of the original inhabitants of Americaįirst published in 1970, this extraordinary book changed the way people thought about the original inhabitants of America. ![]()
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