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INDEX

Note: Boldface page numbers indicate voluntary removal under Monroe, 46
illustrations. Cheyenne, 8
Battle of Little Big Horn, 63
Act for the Government and Protection of Custer’s attack on reservation, 63
Indians (California, 1850), 43 gold in Colorado, 58
Alabama, 46 resistance after Sand Creek Massacre, 59, 61
allotment plan, 54–55 total war against, 62–63, 63
Alvarado, Pedro de, 22 Chickasaw, 49
Amherst, Sir Jeffrey, 31 children, removal of Native American, 43
Apache Chippewa, 53, 57
allotment plan, 55 Chivington, John, 58–59, 60
raids in southwest by, 41, 59–60, 61 Choctaw, 49–50, 53, 55
Arapaho Christianity
allotment plan, 55 conversion to
Battle of Little Big Horn, 63 in American boarding schools, 53, 54
gold in Colorado, 58 Catholic missionaries, 7, 40–41, 41
resistance after Sand Creek Massacre, 59 English attempts, 24, 25–26
assimilation policy as goal of Columbus, 12, 14
boarding schools, 53–54 methods that should be used to show value
as consistent failed attempt, 60–61 of, to Native Americans, 27
as cultural genocide, 56 as motivation for murder of Native
Dawes Act, 54–55 Americans, 29
Auchincloss, Kenneth, 9, 10 Protestant subjugation of Catholics in
Aztecs, 20–21, 21 England, 26
slavery condoned by, 16
Bahamas, 11, 12 treatment of Native Americans as in
Battle of Little Big Horn (1876), 63 opposition to teachings of, 18
Big Eagle (Wambditanka, Dakota Sioux chief), Churchill, Ward
60–61 Columbus’s extermination of Tainos, 8–9
Bozeman Trail, 61 condition of much of reservation land given,
buffalo, 62, 63, 66 66–67
Burnett, John G., 51 conquistadors’ intention to decimate Native
Burnett, Peter, 43 Americans, 21–22
missions as “deathmills,” 40–41
Calhoun, John C., 46 Pilgrims’ relationship with Native Americans,
California 28
Act for the Government and Protection of spread of smallpox, 31
Indians, 43 Clark, William, 37, 37
desire for Native American land, 42, 58 colonization
Gold Rush, 42, 57–58 Dutch, 28
joined Union, 57 English
population, 41–42 Carolinas, 28
Canfi eld, Amy E., 55 Jamestown, 23–27, 29
Caribbean islands, 11, 12, 17–18, 19 New World as New Canaan, 26
Carlisle Indian School, 53–54, 55 Plymouth, 28, 32
Carolinas, colonies in, 23, 28 Roanoke, 23
Casas, Bartolomé de las, 18 rationale for taking land, 28
Cayuga, 36 Colorado, 58
Cayuse, 60 Columbus, Bartholomew, 19
Cherokee, 47, 49 Columbus, Christopher, 13
allotment plan, 55 Caribbean islands claimed by, 11
escape into Carolina hills, 53 early treatment of Tainos, 12–14
removal under Indian Removal Act, 50–53 extermination of Taino, 8–9

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