A series of outstanding articles by leading scholars on what Native Americans experienced during our Civil War. Articles include Nations Asunder: Western American Indians During the Civil War; Minnesota Volunteers and the Coming of the 1862 Dakota War; The Most Terrible Stories: The Minnesota Dakota War and White Imagination; Stand Watie at First and Second Cabin Creek; and interview with a leading historian, a look at Wisconsin's 1832 Black Hawk War Trail and much more, including book reviews, index.