![]() ![]() You learn how people who want to be left alone and to maintain their integrity are dehumanized and herded like cattle when not slaughtered, and yet these are the people called the "savages," and those who perpetrated such injustices claimed to be bringing "civilization." A powerful reckoning with a shameful part of American heritage a work every American citizen should read and on which they should reflect. You learn how corrupt profiteers in the Indian Affairs bureau won large contracts and sent rotten food, making a lot of money but proving responsible for the deaths of countless Natives. You learn to expect that every treaty will be dishonored or "re-negotiated" to the harm of the Natives. ![]() What fails to be justifiable is the treachery, betrayal, and genocidal tendencies that marked the United States Army in its relations with the Native Americans. One quickly learns how the Native Americans are despised and treated terribly justification is never offered for some of their behaviors, but they are put in better context and thus more comprehensible. A historical account of the "Indian Wars," or the interaction of the United States and Native American tribes of the West between 18, as perhaps would have been told from the Native American perspective.The author gives an overview of what happened around the world for each year under discussion, and pieces together the various tragic interactions between Native Americans and the US Army. ![]()
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![]() ![]() |a Frontier and pioneer life |z Arizona |0 |v Fiction. Sarah, at seventeen, is a tomboy though she longs to be educated, gracious and beautiful like other women. Sarah Agnes Prine begins her diary in 1881 when her father decides to move the whole family - and their horse ranch - from Arizona Territory to Texas, where life will be easier. ![]() Told in the form of a diary and based on a real-life person. These is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901. Stuck in a loveless marriage, her romantic life picks up when her husband dies and she meets an army captain. |a Frontier life through the eyes of Sarah Agnes Prine, a rancher's wife in Arizona who has to deal with Indians and outlaws, rifle in hand. |a Map of Arizona and New Mexico on endpapers. |a These is my words : |b the diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901 : Arizona territories : a novel / |c Nancy E. ![]() ![]() Lewis’s classic work explores the nature of temptation and evil and resistance to them. In our secularized and materialistic society, even Christians have little awareness of the spiritual side of reality. Lewis understood, like few in the past century, just how deeply faith is both imaginative and rational. The Screwtape Letters is a very important book for our times. “ show his ability to dramatize: to set forth an attractive vision of the Christian life, proceeding by means of character and plot to narrate an engaging story, everything colorful, vibrant, and active.” Christianity Today “Apparently this Oxford don and Cambridge professor is going to be around for a long time he calls himself a dinosaur but he seems to speak to people where they are.” Christianity Today Lewis is the ideal persuader for the half-convinced, for the good man who would like to be a Christian but finds his intellect getting in the way.” The Washington Post Book World “Excellent, hard-hitting, challenging, provoking.” New York Times Book Review “This book is sparkling yet truly reverent, in fact a perfect joy, and should become a classic.” Observer ![]() ![]() ![]() There are a couple of hundred helpful annotations that first-time and veteran readers will find intriguing.” Guardian …I love the addition of red ink inside this book for the notes. “Why get a new Screwtape Letters? I love the feel and look of this annotated edition. ![]() |