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The winning of the West, an important chapter in our country's growth, has also gone down in history as a period of bloody warfare, with the white settlers and the Army pitted against the Indians. In their long and hopeless struggle to survive, many great leaders rose up among the tribes. This is the story of five of the most famous Indian chiefs of the West:
Sequoyah—an uneducated Cherokee who nevertheless created a written language for his people.
Crazy Horse—the great fighting war chief of the Oglala Sioux who defeated Custer at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé—the most brilliant of all western Indian chiefs who turned to war only when his hopes and attempts to keep peace had failed.
Sitting Bull—Sioux medicine man and chief who fought in vain to save his people from extinction.
Geronimo—the last of the fighting war chiefs whose name was the battle cry of the Apache.
These chiefs and the people they led lost their ancient lands, their hunting grounds, and their way of life disappeared. An absorbing, exciting account that reveals the government's shameful treatment of the only native Americans.
—from the dust jacket
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