A new history of the Americas: Indigenous peoples nearly defeated European colonizers

NOTE: For those of you who read ALMOST DEAD INDIANS, you will know I have a chapter on FORT DETROIT which explains taking captives/captivity/adoption, collecting and taking scalps and the conditions for the tribes dealing with the French, British and Spanish invaders and the Long Knives (Virginians, pre-America).

 There is also history about New England, like King Phillips War and the Phips Proclamation.  You really need to understand this real history, our tribal histories.... and I made it easy to read...Trace

THIS IS SO HELPFUL!👇

Finnish historian Pekka Hämäläinen – who hates the film ‘Dances with Wolves’ – wrote a book called ‘Indigenous Continent,’ in which he explains that the tribes of North America had notable military capacity and that their defeat was by no means inevitable...

The defeat of Custer and his Seventh Cavalry at the hands of the Sioux and Cheyennes at Little Bighorn in 1876 was not at all a matter of bad luck on the part of the general and his troops.  Rather, it was the logical and expected result of the Indigenous people being better strategists, more familiar with the terrain and tactically superior to the American soldiers.