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Historisch overzicht van de ondergang der Noordamerikaanse Indianen in de tweede helft van de 19e eeuw. Vanaf de hoogste klassen van het basisonderwijs. Vanaf ca. 14 jaar.
Dee Alexander Brown Boeken
28 februari 1908 – 12 december 2002
Dee Brown was een gevierd auteur wiens werken de Amerikaanse geschiedenis verkenden, vaak gericht op het leven aan de grens en vergeten momenten van de Burgeroorlog. Zijn baanbrekende studie wordt algemeen erkend voor het blootleggen van de systematische vernietiging van Native American stammen aan een wereldwijd publiek, wat de wereldwijde perceptie fundamenteel veranderde. Brown had ook een carrière als bibliothecaris en ontwikkelde zijn uitgebreide schrijversloopbaan parallel daaraan.
When it comes to demystifying spiritual warfare and standing boldly in victory, no one has mentored me more than Dee Brown. The principles of lasting spiritual growth and strength are encompassed in each life-transforming chapter.--Pastor Diane Altman. (Practical Life)
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
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The classic bestselling history "The New York Times" has called original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking is available in a special 30th-anniversary edition. 56 illustrations.
On Sunday afternoon, June 25, 1876, Gen. George Custer and 264 members of the U.S. Seventh Cavalry engaged more than 3,000 warriors of the Lakota Sioux, Arapaho, and Cheyenne nations and were killed in the ensuing battle. Acclaimed historian Dee Brown traces the events of that day and of the weeks before, through the eyes and ears of seventeen participants from both sides, including Natives, scouts, soldiers, and civilians. Why did Custer divide his forces? Why did he not take his regiment’s Gatling guns? Why did he expect Sitting Bull to surrender without a fight? How did Sitting Bull’s vision at the sun dance on the Rosebud foretell the occasion and the outcome of the battle? How did war chiefs Crazy Horse and Gall take advantage of Custer’s tactical errors? And why did they preserve Custer’s body from mutilation? Showdown at Little Big Horn answers these and other questions, telling the story of the fight from many points of view, based on reports, diaries, letters, and testimony of the participants themselves. Together the accounts provide a gripping narrative of a punitive expedition gone badly awry and an assemblage of Native peoples who forestalled for a while the army’s domination of the northern plains.
The American West
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A definitive, illustrated, single-volume history of the American West, from the bestselling author of BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE, Dee Brown.
All aspects of western feminine life, which include a good deal about the western male, are covered in this lively, informal but soundly factual account of the women who built the West. Among those whose stories are included are Elizabeth Custer; Lola Montez, Ann Eliza Young, Josephine Meeker, Carry Nation, Esther Morris, and Virginia Reed.
Sam Morrison, ein Zeitungsreporter, bemüht sich um 1866, die Identität und die Ereignisse um den Tod des legendären Kämpfers Major Rawley aufzuklären.
