VIOLENCE OVER THE LAND Indians and Empires in the Early American West

Curtis Michael Holland brings an even yet conversational tone to this expansive four-century (1540-1940) history of the North American Indian. Concentrating on marginalized and often overlooked peoples of the American Southwest, this audiobook focuses on how the Paiute, Ute, and the author's own Shoshone tribes used their unique geography, lifeways, and violence to attempt to ward off the relentless advances of conquistadors, missionaries, mountain men, and the U.S. Army. Disease, slavery, starvation, alcoholism, and broken treaties all contributed to the likelihood that Native Americans would lose their homelands. In the final chapter, when the author recounts his own family history, Holland's tone reflects the irony that it still can be a battle for Indigenous peoples to live in the land of the free. B.P. © AudioFile 2024, Portland, Maine [Published: AUGUST 2024]