An eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the Native American during the second half of the nineteenth century. Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown allows the great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other peoples to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated. A unique and disturbing narrative, told with force and clarity, that changed forever our vision of how the West was really won.

Impeccably researched, this study details who created each name, as well as when, where, how, and why they were used. The result is a detailed linguistic history of lakes, streams, cities, counties, and other Indiana names. Each entry includes native language forms, translations, and pronunciation guides, offering fresh historical insight into the state of Indiana.

Native Americans lived, hunted and farmed in east-central Indiana for two thousand years before the area became a part of the Hoosier State. Place names like Delaware County, Muncie, Yorktown, and Anderson demonstrate the importance of the nation in local history. Author Chris Flook explores the unique yet often untold history of the Native experience in east-central Indiana.

The story of a Native American woman who effectively became the chief of an entrenched patriarchal nation, who crashed through thick walls of ethnic, racial, and gender prejudice—then spent the rest of her life using a unique bi-cultural identity to improve the lot of her people, physically, emotionally, politically, and spiritually. In 1889, Susan La Flesche became the first Native American physician in U.S. history, earning her degree thirty-one years before women could vote—and thirty-five years before Indians could become citizens in their own country.