Welcome to Great Warriors II

Great Warriors II continues the story begun in Great Warriors Path, focusing on the Native American tribes, warriors and leaders who found themselves combatting European settlement of their lands in North America.  Great Warriors Path focused on the earliest contacts between Native peoples and Europeans from England, France, Spain, and the Netherlands, among others.  From the 16-19th centuries, warfare, communicable diseases, destruction of food resources and social displacement reduced tribal populations.  By 1830, most if not all of the tribes in what is now the eastern United States faced the ultimate injustice, removal from their ancient lands.  Individual leaders such as Tecumseh of the Shawnee, Osceola of the Seminole and Black Hawk of the Sauk rose on behalf of their people to fight against the inevitable.  Other leaders attempted cooperation and co-existence with Settlers, often with tragic consequences. 

Great Warriors II carries this story into the American west.  Leaders such as Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull of the Lakota/Sioux, Cochise and Geronimo of the Apache, and Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce rose in resistance to White men's efforts to destroy their way of life.  For every Battle of the Little Bighorn/Greasy Grass, though, were battles lost, treaties signed, and land slowly but surely given up.  From the Apache Wars in what is now Texas in the 1820's, to the Ute and Navajo Wars of the 1920's, the same scenario was repeated again and again.  Great Warriors II continues that story.

 

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