In a Barren Land: The American Indian Quest for Cultural Survival, 1607 to the Present Paperback - 2002
by Paula M. Marks
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They were strange and rather pitiful, the voyagers who sailed into the bay and up the river and began scratching out an odd sort of village on a swampy peninsula.
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With In a Barren Land, award-winning historian Paula Mitchell Marks reconfirms her status as one of the foremost contemporary chronicles of America and the American West. Following her And Die in the West: The Story of the O.K. Corral Gunfight ("should come to be regarded as definitive" -- Booklist) and Precious Dust ("far and away our best social history of the gold rush experience" -- The Washington Post Book World), she now tells the often appalling yet always engrossing story of American Indian cultures under siege from 1607 to the present.
Marks dramatically illustrates how, across the nation over the course of nearly four centuries, America's original inhabitants were stripped of both their land and their way of life by a series of broken promises and bloody persecutions. Here are such well-known events as the Battle of Little Big Horn, the Trail of Tears, and the massacre at Wounded Knee. And here, too, are such equally well-known personalities as Chief Joseph, Geronimo, Cochise, and Andrew Jackson, a president whose perfidies to the Indians still retain the power to shock and dismay.
In a Barren Land is an enduring contribution to the endlessly fascinating and controversial story of the settling of America.
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- Title In a Barren Land: The American Indian Quest for Cultural Survival, 1607 to the Present
- Author Paula M. Marks
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint Edition
- Pages 496
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York
- Date 2002-07-09
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Maps
- ISBN 9780688166335 / 0688166334
- Weight 1.24 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.21 x 1.34 in (23.50 x 15.77 x 3.40 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 17th Century
- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.049
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