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Synopsis
A History of the Influential Seneca Leader Who Fought to Maintain Indian Sovereignty During the Bitter Wars for North AmericaNearly a century before the United States declared the end of the Indian Wars, the fate of Native Americans was revealed in the battle of Fallen Timbers. In 1794, General Anthony Wayne led the first American army— the Legion of the United States—against a unified Indian force in the Ohio country. The Indians were routed and forced to vacate their lands. It was the last of a series of Indian attempts in the East to retain their sovereignty and foreshadowed what would occur across the rest of the continent. In Guyasuta and the Fall of Indian America, historian Brady J. Crytzer traces how American Indians were affected by the wars leading to American Independence through the life of one of the period’s most influential figures. Supported by extensive research and full of compelling drama, the author unravels the tangled web of alliances, both white and native, and explains how the world of the American Indians could not survive alongside the emergent United States.
About the Author
BRADY J. CRYTZER teaches history at Robert Morris University. A recipient of both the Donald S. Kelly and Donna J. McKee Awards for outstanding scholarship, he is the author of Major Washington’s Pittsburgh and the Mission to Fort Le Boeuf and Fort Pitt: A Frontier History.