The Indians Won
The Indians Won
First published in 1970 and long out of print, The Indians Won is a stunning work of speculative fiction that imagines that, following the defeat of Custer and Benteen at the Little Bighorn in 1876, the many Indigenous tribes of America formed an alliance to sweep the whites out of the center of the country and form a new nation, bounded on both coasts by the United States. One hundred years later the two nations, having taken very different paths toward stewardship of the land and resources, are on the brink of war again, as the five hundred million wasichu of the United States eye the vast, open center of the continent, just as they had prior to their explusion in the nineteenth century. The difference is, now they are both nuclear powers.
Imaginative, enthralling, rich in historical detail, and written from the perspective of a Native American writer, The Indians Won is an emotionally charged novel that asks the question: What if the Indians had won?
'The Indians Won is a great read by one of the masters of modern fiction. Even more, it is a groundbreaking work of Native American fiction and deserves to be included in the canon of Indigenous literature.'--David Heska Wanbli Weiden, author of Winter Counts: A Novel
Born in 1942 to a jazz musican father and a New Mexico Puebloan nightclub singer mother, Martin Cruz Smith is world renowned as "a master of the International thriller" (New York Times). His novels include Gorky Park, Stallion Gate, Nightwing, Polar Star, and many more. He is a two-time winner of the Hammett Prize and a recipient of the Mystery Writers of America’s Grand Master Award, the Crime Writers’ Association of the United Kingdom’s Golden Dagger Award, and the Premio Piemonte Giallo Internazionale. He lives in California.
Foreword
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
