The Indian Wars

By Don Nardo

A discussion of the hostilities between European-American settlers and the native American population and their impact on both settlers and Indians. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 156006403X
• ISBN13: 9781560064039
• Release Date: September 1991
• Publisher: Lucent Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.3" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

Outstanding!!

This book has a short but excellent text that ably summarizes the main reasons that the American whites defeated the Native American tribes in the nineteenth century. Racial bigotry, religious intolerance, broken treaties, application of superior weaponry, treachery and duplicity, and several other factors are examined in a frank manner that does not attempt to whitewash or cover up the systematic abuses of the American government. Yet the author does not make the Indians look like helpless victims. Rather, he shows that they were capable, courageous fighters who were simply overwhelmed by the larger numbers and firepower of the whites. A very informative and useful book that all high school students should be required to read.