About this ebook
For generations, Native American history has been told in fragments—always from the perspective of those who took the land. The Native American Chronicles: An Untold History finally tells the complete story, from the first peoples who crossed into North America 15,000 years ago to the tribal leaders serving in government today.
This is not the history you learned in school.
You'll meet the builders of Cahokia, a city larger than medieval London. You'll witness the epidemics of the 1500s that killed up to 90 percent of indigenous populations. You'll follow the Cherokee on the Trail of Tears, stand with Red Cloud as he defeats the U.S. Army, and watch the dream die at Wounded Knee.
But this chronicle does not end with defeat. You'll see Navajo Code Talkers use their forbidden language to help win World War II, witness the 1969 occupation of Alcatraz that sparked the Red Power movement, and understand how 574 sovereign tribal nations are reclaiming their cultures and their rightful place in American society.
From the Haudenosaunee Confederacy's influence on the Founding Fathers to Deb Haaland becoming Secretary of the Interior in 2021, this meticulously researched narrative brings together archaeology, primary sources, and oral histories to create the authoritative account every American needs to read.
You cannot know where this nation is going until you know whose land it was built upon.
