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In brief text, this account tells of the courage and daring of the Shoshone woman who guided Lewis and Clark. Told in story format, this is a chronicle of the Lewis & Clark expedition with Sacajawea. A map of their journey is included. . In brief text, this account tells of the courage & daring of the Shoshone woman who guided Lewis & Clark. Annotation. As a young girl, Sacajawea was separated from her family when she was captured by a band of Minnetaree...

Traces the white man's conquest of the Indians of the American West, emphasizing the causes, events, and effects of the major Indian Wars leading to the symbolic end of Indian freedom at Wounded Knee.

"In this volume, Jeff Broome has done a marvelous job of mining documents filed under the Indian depredation claims system a federal Indian policy intending to preserve peace on the frontiers by allowing white settlers and Indians, alike, to file claims for the wrongs done by each other. The policy, the federal government hoped, would prevent frontier retaliations and violence. It failed miserably, but the resulting claims reveal nearly a century...