“A good Indian is a dead Indian” - this cannibalistic aphorism of General Sheridan became the slogan of the American army, “liberating” the Wild West from its indigenous inhabitants. Merciless genocide and violation of all peace treaties, mass murder and scalping of women and children - there is no crime that the American “civilizers” would not commit. Not wanting to meekly go to slaughter, the Sioux, Comanches, Cheyennes and other Indian tribes responded with a merciless guerrilla war - for the entire century the earth burned under the aliens’ feet. “Primitive savages” beat the regular army more than once; the Yankees still remember with a shudder the defeat of General Custer’s detachment on the Little Bighorn, but there were also the “Fetterman Massacre”, and the Battle of Rosebud, and many other episodes... In this encyclopedia you will find comprehensive information about all the Indian Wars, about the heroic resistance of Native Americans and the bloody conquest of the Wild West.