About this ebook
For fifteen thousand years before Columbus arrived in 1492, thriving civilizations covered North America. Cahokia, near present-day St. Louis, was larger than London in 1100 CE. The Haudenosaunee Confederacy created a democratic system that influenced America's founders. Yet most Americans know almost nothing about this history.
Beyond the Frontier: The True Story of Native Americans changes that.
This is not another sanitized textbook. It is the complete, unvarnished account of Native peoples from the ancient Bering land bridge crossing through the resistance movements of the 1970s to today's sovereignty battles. You will meet Metacom, who nearly drove English colonists from New England in 1675. You will stand with Tecumseh as he attempts to unite dozens of nations against American expansion in 1811. You will witness the Trail of Tears of 1838 through the eyes of Cherokee families torn from their homes. You will ride with Crazy Horse at Little Bighorn in 1876 and mourn at Wounded Knee in 1890.
This book reveals what happened at Cahokia between 900 and 1300 CE, when a Native American city rivaled medieval Paris. It explains how the Navajo Code Talkers helped win World War II in the Pacific. It documents the Alcatraz occupation of 1969 and the Standing Rock protests of 2016.
This account draws from primary sources, archaeological evidence, and Native voices often silenced in traditional histories. Each chapter presents thoroughly researched facts with specific dates, names, and events. You will understand treaty violations, forced removals, the deliberate destruction of buffalo herds, the boarding school system, and the resilience that allowed Native cultures to survive.
This is American history as it actually happened. If you want to understand the full story of this continent and its first peoples, if you are tired of incomplete narratives that begin in 1492, if you believe that Indigenous voices deserve to be heard, then this book is for you.
The real story of Native America begins fifteen thousand years before the history books say it does. Are you ready to learn what really happened?
