A Century of Dishonor

"No other book had such an impact on the tender consciences of the American people, and none accomplished so much on behalf of a sizable minority."--historian Ray Allen Billington. Sharply critical of the United States government's cruelty toward Native Americans, this monumental study chronicles the maltreatment of Indians as far back as the American Revolution. Focusing on the Delaware and the Cheyenne, the text also documents and deplores the sufferings of the Sioux, Nez Perce, Ponca, Winnebago, and Cherokee--revealing, in the process, a succession of broken treaties, the government's forced removal of tribes from choice lands, and other examples of inhuman treatment of the nation's 300,000 Indians. Within a year of its 1881 publication, this ever-relevant reference played an instrumental role in the creation of the powerful Indian Rights Association. Unabridged republication of the classic 1881 edition.