About this ebook
For fifteen thousand years before Columbus, Indigenous civilizations thrived across North America—cities rivaling London, democratic confederacies, vast trade networks. Then came 1492, and within decades, ninety percent of the population was gone.
This is the story most Americans never learned.
From ice age migrations to present-day sovereignty battles, Sacred Ground chronicles the full sweep of Native American history. Discover the mound builders of Cahokia, the Iroquois Confederacy's influence on U.S. democracy, and the truth behind Wounded Knee, the Trail of Tears, and Standing Rock.
Built on primary sources and firsthand accounts, this narrative goes beyond sanitized textbooks to reveal the real history of conquest, survival, and resilience—from the Dawes Act's theft of ninety million acres to the boarding schools' cultural genocide to today's ongoing fight for treaty rights.
Over 500 years. 574 tribes. One essential story.
The ground remembers everything. It's time we did too.
For readers of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, 1491, and The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee.
