Before the white man came, the vast region that is now the United States was inhabited by one million Native Americans, organized into six hundred distinct soci

On June 3, 1513, ships commanded by Juan Ponce de Leon were attacked by a group of Calusa Indians in one of the first hostile encounters recorded between Europe

Traces the history of the U.S. Army's campaign against the Native American population during the nineteenth century, describing major battles and legendary figu

Bringing together Custer, Sherman, Grant, and other fascinating military and political figures, as well as great native leaders such as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bul

The apocalyptic clashes of culture between the land-hungry whites and the American Indians, which reached their climax in the latter half of the nineteenth cent