An Indian History of the American West
Dee Brown, 1970
Henry Holt and Company
Recommended by Stanley Hoo
One - "Their Manners Are Decorous and Praiseworthy", p 6
When Columbus first saw the island [of San Salvador] he described it as "very big and very level and the trees very green ... the whole of it so green that it is a pleasure to gaze upon." The Europeans who followed him there destroyed its vegetation and its inhabitants --human, animal, bird, and fish-- and after turnng it into a wasteland, they abandoned it.
p 87-90
November 28, 1864. Sand Creek, Black Kettle's Cheyennes massacred (105 women and children, 28 men killed) by Colonel Chivington.
p 169
November 27, 1868. Washita River, Black Kettle's Cheyennes massacred (103 killed out of which 11 warriors, 53 women and children captured) by Custer.
p 178
January 23, 1870. Marias River, Piegans Blackfeet massacred (33 men, 90 women, 50 children) by Major Baker.
p 202
April 30, 1871. Camp Grant massacre of Aravaipa Apaches (144 killed), by Tucson people and mercenaries led by William S. Oury.
Chapter 19. Wounded Knee, p 445
Across the chancel front above the pulpit was strung a crudely lettered banner: PEACE ON EARTH, GOOD WILL TO MEN.