"Empire of the Summer Moon" https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful...
https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful...
This would make an epic miniseries!
Running through the article is the notion that somehow Europeans were uniquely interested in brutal empire building. I can only infer that such notions stem from never having read history books about other cultures.
For example, "Empire of the Summer Moon", by Gwynne
https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful...
See "Empire of the Summer Moon".
https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful...
An excellent read for anyone curious about the history of this.
1 - https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful...
I got a little too interested in the Comanche over the summer, which the article notes is actually a Ute word basically meaning "enemy". The Utes called them enemy because the Comanche prior to European contact lived in the Rockies much farther north. It was only the horse which allowed them to move out onto the plains. He's got them located in the plains of Texas, which again, they weren't at until probably after 1700 and when they were they completely dominated a region way bigger than that.
Wiki:
The Comanche emerged as a distinct group shortly before 1700, when they broke off from the Shoshone people[15] living along the upper Platte River in Wyoming. In 1680, the Comanche acquired horses from the Pueblo Indians after the Pueblo Revolt.[16] They separated from the Shoshone after this, as the horses allowed them greater mobility in their search for better hunting grounds.
http://www.npr.org/assets/news/2014/06/Tribal_Nations_Map_NA...
I'm not sure exactly what he's representing. It can't be a single moment in time.
https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful...
And throughout the book's description of these events,
there was one constant:
All of the white people who joined Indian tribes loved it
and refused to go back to white civilization. All the
Indians who joined white civilization hated it and did
everything they could to go back to their previous tribal
lives.
[2] http://www.amazon.com/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful/...
https://www.amazon.com/Empire-Summer-Moon-Comanches-Powerful...
Why anyone hasn't made this into a miniseries is baffling. It's quite an epic. Not only that, it really happened. No worries about canon. No worries about sequels and prequels, because there is no beginning or end to historical stories. The stories are fractal, in that there's no end to going into a particular aspect in depth.
There are plenty of others.