Chronicle of the Indian Wars: From Colonial Times to Wounded Knee

by Alan Axelrod

A comprehensive account of four hundred years of struggle draws on contemporary accounts--missionary journals, captivity narratives, and oral testimonies--to describe how native American nations fought to protect their land from white colonizers.

Genres: History, Nonfiction

288 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1993

About the author

Alan Axelrod, Ph.D., is a prolific author of history, business and management books. As of October 2018, he had written more than 150 books, as noted in an online introduction by Lynn Ware Peek before an interview with Axelrod on the National Public Radio station KPCW. Axelrod resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

Reviews

[Stephen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I can't give this book a two because it is OK for what it is, a straight narrative history of the Indian wars concentrating and dates and generals and battles. It could have been so much more impressive with a little anthropology thrown in there. I would have loved to heard more about how the Iroquois lived or what their religious beliefs were and less on how they won or lost some minor battle. The first half of this book drags too, but it gets better after the revolutionary war when the source material is better.

[Jeff Minar · Rating 5 out of 5]

This chronicle went into great depth and had primary source information from government and private sources. I learned a great deal I had not known about the wars. The military information in particular was quite impressive. The complexity of the interaction between the military and the Indians was astounding. I had not realized how brutal and murderous some of the Indian behavior had been, especially the Kiowas, Comanches, and other western tribes.

[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fair examination of the wars between Native Americans and the whiteman. There is fault on both sides.