Few people need to be reminded in the 21st century of the cost of European imperialism and colonization on indigenous and native cultures around the world. The increasingly controversial view of “Columbus Day, ” still represented on the United States commemorative calendar, attests quite clearly to an ambiguous modern view of early European encounters with Native Americans. Slavery, disease, land and resource appropriation and the rapid disintegration...

Discusses the life and times of the Sauk chief who led his people in a struggle to prevent the advance of white settlers in Illinois in the early 1800s.

Robert Jeremy Cole, the legendary doctor and hero of The Physician, left an enduring legacy. From the 11th century on, the eldest son in each generation of the Cole family has borne the same first name and middle initial and many of these men have followed the medical profession. A few have been blessed with their ancestor's diagnostic skill and the "sixth sense" they call The Gift, the ability to know instinctively when death is impending. The tragedy...

Introduces Black Hawk, a Sauk Indian leader who was driven from his lands in Illinois by the U.S. government.

A biography of the last great war leader of the Sauk whose unsuccessful attempts to keep their homelands ended Indian land holdings in the Illinois region.