Indian Wars
Frontier Conflict, Indigenous Resistance, and the Contested Memory of American ExpansionBy Alexander Scott Withers, Joseph Kossuth Dixon, Black Hawk, Charles M. Scanlan, Enoch Lawrence Lee
Length36h 25m
About this audiobook
Indian Wars gathers documentary, historical, and autobiographical voices around the long and contested history of conflict between Native nations and expanding United States power. Its range of styles—frontier chronicle, political testimony, military-inflected narrative, reformist commentary, and personal recollection—makes the volume more than a record of battles. Accounts of removal, resistance, diplomacy, settlement, and memory reveal how "Indian wars" functioned as both historical events and enduring national narratives. The collection's juxtaposition of Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives invites close attention to rhetoric, authority, and historical omission. The contributors bring markedly different relations to the subject: historians and regional chroniclers preserve settler-era narratives; a Native leader's voice carries the force of lived dispossession and resistance; and public commentators and advocates illuminate the political aftermath of conquest. Together, these writings belong to the nineteenth- and early twentieth-century struggle over how the American frontier would be remembered. Their differences expose the tensions among expansionist mythology, governmental policy, local memory, and Indigenous sovereignty. Recommended for students and general readers alike, Indian Wars offers a valuable opportunity to compare competing accounts within a single volume. Its breadth encourages historical inquiry while fostering a sustained dialogue about violence, representation, and the making of American history.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length36 hrs 25 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateDec 15, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Indian Wars in North Carolina (Annotated)
2Indian Wars
3Chapter I The Land of the Indians
4Chapter II The Indians of North Carolina
5Chapter III Early Indian Wars 1663-1711
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6Chapter IV The Tuscarora War; The Barnwell Expedition 1711-1712
7Chapter V The Tuscarora War; The Moore Expedition 1712-1715
8Chapter VI The Yamassee and Cheraw Wars 1715-1718
9Chapter VII The Decline of the Coastal Plain Indians; 1718-1750
10Chapter VIII The Catawba Indians of the Piedmont Plateau
11Chapter IX The Cherokee Indians of the Western Mountains
12Chapter X The French and Indian War
13Chapter XI The Cherokee War; the Beginning
14Chapter XII The Cherokee War; the End
15Chapter XIII The End of a Century
16Chronicles of Border Warfare – Indian Wars in West Virginia
17Chapter I.
18Chapter II.
19Chapter III.
20Chapter I.
21Chapter II.
22Chapter III.
23Chapter IV.
24Chapter V.
25Chapter VI.
26Chapter VII.
27Chapter VIII.
28Chapter IX.
29Chapter X.
30Chapter XI.
31Chapter XII.
32Chapter XIII.
33Chapter XIV.
34Chapter XV.
35Chapter XVI.
36Chapter XVII.
37Chapter XVIII. (pt. 1)
38Chapter XVIII. (pt. 2)
39Chapter XVIII. (pt. 3)
40Autobiography of the Sauk Leader Black Hawk and the History of the Black Hawk War of 1832
41Autobiography of Black Hawk
42Original Dedication
43Autobiography of Black Hawk
44Black Hawk's Tower
45Mr. Graham's Speech
46Starts for a New Home
47Black Hawk's Last Visit
48Black Hawk's Removal to the Des Moines River
49The Black Hawk War
50Preface
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