NYT - Indigenous Americans | Pueblo City-County Library

1) The heart of everything that is: the untold story of Red Cloud, an American legend

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#1 on the Indigenous Americans list for 2016-01-10.

2) Empire of the summer moon: Quanah Parker and the rise and fall of the Comanches, the most powerful Indian tribe in American history

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Gwynne, S. C

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#2 on the Indigenous Americans list for 2016-01-10.

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-- *A -- The war with the Comanches lasted four decades, in effect holding up the development of the new American nation. Gwynne’s exhilarating account delivers a sweeping narrative that encompasses Spanish colonialism, the Civil War, the destruction of the buffalo herds, and the arrival of the railroads, and the amazing story of Cynthia Ann Parker and her son Quanah—a historical feast for anyone interested in how the United States came into...

3) bury my heart at wounded knee

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4) Crazy Horse and Custer: The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors

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Ambrose, Stephen E

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#4 on the Indigenous Americans list for 2016-01-10.

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A New York Times bestseller from the author of Band of Brothers: The biography of two fighters forever linked by history and the battle at Little Bighorn.
On the sparkling morning of June 25, 1876, 611 men of the United States 7th Cavalry rode toward the banks of Little Bighorn in the Montana Territory, where three thousand Indians stood waiting for battle. The lives of two great warriors would soon be forever...