The ultimate historical reference to the demise of the once-many Indian Nations of the Americas, many of the referenced treaties substantiating this text are found (scanned, not re-typed) on the internet, to be read in full.

For myself, most striking was the tale of the heroic stand of Red Cloud, a chief of the Sioux nation, and the warrior Crazy Horse, whose daring and creativity in battle and ambush allowed the tribes of the Powder River to resist the onslaught of the US Military for over two years.

An excerpt from Chapter One -
"Where today are the Pequot? Where are the Narrragansett, the Mohican, the Pokanoket, and many other once powerful tribes of our people? They have vanished before the avarice and the oppression of the White Man, as snow before a summer sun.
Will we let ourselves be destroyed in our turn without a struggle, give up our homes, our country bequeathed to us by the Great Spirit, the graves of our dead and everything that is dear and sacred to us? I know you will cry with me, 'Never! Never!'"

-Tecumseh of the Shawnees