TL;DR: The story of the Black Hawk Down, the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War, is described in detail in this paper, where a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia, and found themselves trapped down through a long and terrible night fighting against thousands of heavily armed Somalis.
Abstract: Already a classic of war reporting and now reissued as a Grove Press paperback, "Black Hawk Down" is Mark Bowden s brilliant account of the longest sustained firefight involving American troops since the Vietnam War. On October 3, 1993, about a hundred elite U.S. soldiers were dropped by helicopter into the teeming market in the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was to abduct two top lieutenants of a Somali warlord and return to base. It was supposed to take an hour. Instead, they found themselves pinned down through a long and terrible night fighting against thousands of heavily armed Somalis. The following morning, eighteen Americans were dead and more than seventy had been badly wounded.Drawing on interviews from both sides, army records, audiotapes, and videos (some of the material is still classified), Bowden s minute-by-minute narrative is one of the most exciting accounts of modern combat ever writtena riveting story that captures the heroism, courage, and brutality of battle."
TL;DR: Deloria, Jr. as mentioned in this paper described the First Encounter to Dispossession as a "Face-to-Face" encounter with the United States government in the early 19th century.
Abstract: Foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr. Introduction Part One: First Encounter to Dispossession Chapter 1. Premonitions and Prophecies 1. He Will Use Any Means to Get What He Wants (Dan Katchongva, Hopi) 2. White Rabbit Got Lotsa Everything (Lucy Young, Wintu) 3. Visitors from Heaven (Norval Morriseau, Ojibway) 4. Thunder's Dream Comes True (Black Hawk, Sauk) 5. Easy Life of the Gray-Eyed (James Paytiamo, Acoma Pueblo) 6. The Spider's Web (Black Elk, Oglala Sioux) Chapter 2. Face to Face 1. Their Wondrous Works and Ways (Charles Alexander Eastman, Santee Sioux) 2. Before They Got Thick (Percy Bigmouth, Lipan Apache) 3. Silmoodawa Gives a Complete Performance (Anonymous, Micmac) 4. A Different Kind of Man (First Boy, Assiniboine) 5. I Hid Myself and Watched (Pretty Shield, Crow Jaime, Navajo) Chapter 3. Exchange Between Worlds 1. Thunder, Dizzying Liquid, and Cups that Do Not Grow (Waiokasit, Menominee) 2. Keep Your Presents (Curly Chief, Pawnee) 3. Give Us Good Goods (Anonymous, tribe unknown) 4. You Rot the Guts of Our Young Men (King Haglar, Catawba) 5. Some Strange Animal (Wolf Calf, Piegan) 6. Buttocks Bags and Green Coffee Bread (Anonymous, Jicarilla Apache) 7. The Bewitched Pale Man (Vital Thomas, Dogrib) Chapter 4. Bearers of the Cross 1. Burn the Temples, Break Up the Bells (Pedro Naranjo, San Felipe Pueblo) 2. A Good Indian's Dilemma (Anonymous, Fox) 3. We Never Quarrel About Religion (Red Jacket, Iroquois) 4. Janitin is named Jesus (Janitin, Kamia) 5. The Freedom to Work (Pablo Tac, Luiseno) 6. A Shaman Obeys (Pedro Encinales, Salinan) 7. Always Give Blessings and Be Thankful (Jim Whitewolf, Kiowa Apache) Chapter 5. Living Beside Each Other 1. Remove the Cause of Our Uneasiness (Wahunsonacock, Powhatan Confederacy 2. Mary Jemison Becomes an Iroquois (Mary Jemison, Iroquois) 3. Our Very Good Friend Kirk (The Old Snake et al., Shawnee) 4. The Frenchman Dreams Himself Home (Anonymous, Winnebago) 5. Incident at Boyer Creek (Anonymous, Omaha) 6. Our Stock of Food and Clothes (Aleck Paul, Chippewa) 7. If I Could See This Thing (George Bent, Southern Cheyenne) Chapter 6. The Long Resistance 1. We Must Be United (Tecumseh, Shawnee) 2. Black Hawk Stands Alone (William Jones, Fox) 3. Blood Scattered Like Water (William Benson, Pomo) 4. Young Men, Go Out and Fight Them (Wooden Leg, Northern Cheyenne) 5. Geronimo Puts Down the Gun (Jason Betzinez, Southern Chiricahua Apache) Chapter 7. The Treaty Trail 1. Let Us Examine the Facts (Corn Tassel, Cherokee) 2. Osceola Determined (Osceola et al., Seminole) 3. My Son, Stop Your Ears (Chief Joseph, Nez Perce) 4. We Are Not Children (Medicine Horse et al., Otoe) 5. Plenty Coups Travels to Washington (Plenty Coups, Crow) Chapter 8. Exiles in Their Own Land 1. Plea from the Chickasaw (Levi Colbert et al, Chickasaw) 2. Tushpa Crosses the Mississippi (James Culbertson, Choctaw) 3. Corralling the Navajo (Chester Arthur, Navajo) 4. The Uprooted Winnebago (Little Hill, Winnebago) 5. Standing Bear's Odyssey (Standing Bear, Ponca) Chapter 9. The Nation's Hoop is Broken and Scattered 1. The Buffalo Go (Old Lady Horse, Kiowa) 2. Take Care of Me (Wild Cat, Seminole) 3. I Am Alone (Cochise, Chiricahua Apache) 4. I Have Spoken (Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux) 5. I Want to Look for My Children (Chief Joseph, Nez Perce) 6. No Dawn to the East (Anonymous, tribe unknown) 7. Gone Forever (Buffalo Bird Woman, Hidatsa) 8. This Awful Loneliness (Anonymous, Omaha) 9. A Wish (Flint Knife, Blackfoot) Part Two: Reservation to Resurgence Chapter 10. The Very Small Islands 1. Treated Better by Wolves (Struck By The Ree, Yankton Sioux Passing Hail, Santee Sioux) 2. We Lost Everything (Herrero, Navajo) 3. The Way Agents Get Rich (Sarah Winnemucca, Paiute) 4. The Career of Ely Parker (Ely S. Parker, Seneca-Iroquois) 5. Annie Makes Her Choice (Annie Lowry, Paiute) 6. We Had Everything to Learn (Carl Sweezy, Arapaho) Chapter 11. To Learn Another Way 1. Responsive and Resistant Students (Ellis B. Childers, Creek Lone Wolf, Blackfoot) 2. He Is Not One of Us (Sun Elk, Taos Pueblo) 3. What Harm Is in Our Sun-dance? (Anonymous, Blackfoot) 4. We Will Dance (Anonymous, Kwakiutl) 5. Dr. Fewkes Plays Like a Child (Edmund Nequatewa, Hopi) 6. Judge Wooden Leg Keeps One Wife (Wooden Leg, Northern Cheyenne) Chapter 12. The Flood Has Come 1. A House of Our Own (Joseph La Flesche et al., Omaha) 2. Luther's Father Stands Alone (Luther Standing Bear, Rosebud Sioux) 3. Half White and Half Indian (John Stands in Timber, Northern Cheyenne) 4. We Want to Tell You Something (Albert Yava, Hopi) 5. He-na-Tom, the Hoodwinker (Lucy Thompson, Yurok) 6. The Dead Did Not Return (Anonymous, Pine Ridge Sioux) Chapter 13. Hearts on the Ground 1. Life on the Checkerboard (Ruth Muskrat Bronson, Cherokee) 2. Big Man's Rules and Laws (Alexander Posey, Creek) 3. The Outrage of Allotment (DeWitt Clinton Duncan, Cherokee) 4. Farming and Futility (Martin Charlot, Flathead-Salish) 5. The Hopi Push of War (Helen Sekaquaptewa, Hopi) Chapter 14. A Twentieth-Century Indian Voice 1. The Best and the Brightest (Society of American Indians) 2. Laughing at Themselves (Anonymous) 3. From Wassaja to Montezuma (Carlos Montezuma, Yavapai-Apache) 4. Suddenly a Gate (Michael Posluns, Shuswap) 5. Following the Medicine (Anonymous, Washoe) 6. Scandal in Oklahoma (Gertrude Bonnin, Sioux et al.) Chapter 15. Interlude of Hope 1. Hard Times in Sioux Country (John Fire Lame Deer, Sioux) 2. Neglect Along the Klamath (Robert Spott, Yurok) 3. The Twenties at San Juan (Alfonso Ortiz, San Juan Pueblo) 4. Commissioner Collier Is on Our Side (Antonio Luhan, Taos Pueblo) 5. Resisting the Indian New Deal (Rupert Costo, Cahuilla) 6. Debate Over IRA (Alfred DuBray, Sioux Ramon Roubideaux, Sioux) 7. Reducing Navajo Sheep (The Blind Man's Daughter, Navajo) Chapter 16. In and Out of the Mainstream 1. Counting Coup in World War Two (Joseph Medicine Crow, Crow) 2. A Code Talker Comes Home (Anonymous, Navajo) 3. The Menominees Are Terminated (DRUMS committee, Menominee) 4. On Relocation (Bennie Bearskin, Winnebago Watt Spade, Cherokee) 5. Stopping Erosion (Anonymous, Navajo) Chapter 17. Let's Raise Some Hell 1. The New Indian Wars (Laura McCloud, Tulalip) 2. Invading Alcatraz (Adam Fortunate Eagle, Red Lake Chippewa) 3. Discovery: The Beeah Tribe (Anonymous) 4. Birth of AIM (Vernon Bellecourt, Chippewa) 5. Confrontation or Negotiation (Gerald Vizenor, White Earth Chippewa) Chapter 18. So Long as This Land Exists 1. Going Back (Little Star, tribe unknown) 2. Hopis and the Love Generation (Peter Nuvamsa, Sr., Hopi Fred Coyote, Wailaki) 3. Eskimos and "The Act" (Fred Bigjim, Eskimo and James Ito-Adler) 4. Dark Sky Over Black Mesa (Asa Bazhonoodah, Navajo) 5. Indian Children in Crisis (Anonymous, Oklahoma Indian Anonymous, Hopi) Chapter 19. It's Hard to Be Indian 1. What Am I (Anonymous) 2. Alone and Very Scared (Richard S. Cardinal, Chipewyan) 3. Notes from Indian Country (Tim Giago, Sioux) 4. Before and After Gambling (Jim Northrup, Ojibwe) 5. Sovereignty Revitalized (Donald L. Fixico, Creek-Seminole-Shawnee-Sac and Fox) 6. Restoring Life to the Dead (Rosemary Cambra, Muwekma) 7. First and Last Eskimos (Anonymous, Eskimo) 8. Resistance at Oka (Peter Blue Cloud, Mohawk) 9. Confronting Columbus Again (N. Scott Momaday, Kiowa) Chapter 20. Towards a Native Millennium 1. Thorns in the Side (Leslie Logan) 2. History Repeating Itself (Jenine Dumont, Metis) 3. Old Names in Charge (Wilma Mankiller, Cherokee Ben Nighthorse Campbell, Cheyenne) 4. Different Programs (Ben Bray, Creek) 5. Reuniting with Beauty (Rose Johnson/Tsosie, Navajo) 6. Speedboat or Canoe? (Watt Scraper, Cherokee) 7. An Eagle Nation (Carter Revard, Osage) 8. The End of the World (The Zuni People Anonymous, Apache) Notes on sources Illustration credits Index
TL;DR: God's Jury as mentioned in this paper is an account of how the techniques used by the Spanish Inquisition created our modern world, from Vatican archives to Guantanamo Bay and the Third Reich, and argues that the battle between private conscience and outside forces is the central contest of the modern era.
Abstract: From Cullen Murphy, editor at large of "Vanity Fair", "God's Jury" is a chilling and powerful account of how the techniques used by the Spanish Inquisition created our modern world. For centuries states have used their power to censor, watch, manipulate and punish. "God's Jury" argues that the Inquisition - the Catholic body that existed for over 700 years - is not a medieval oddity, but is intrinsically bound up with modernity. From Vatican archives to Guantanamo Bay and the Third Reich, Cullen Murphy shows how the Inquisition's techniques - record-keeping, bureaucracy and a terrifying sense of certainty - are now standard operating procedure, and that the battle between private conscience and outside forces is the central contest of the modern era. Cullen Murphy is "Vanity Fair's" editor at large and the author of "Are We Rome?" and "The Word According to Eve". He was previously the managing editor of "The Atlantic Monthly". "Lucid and provocative, blistering, cogent and powerful...A persuasive argument that we still live in the world the inquisition made - a world of us and them, of moral self-righteousness and intellectual intolerance". ("Sunday Times"). "Beguiling and horrifying ...a book rich in stories and imaginative connections". (John Cornwell, author of "Hitler's Pope"). "A grand and scary tour of inquisitorial moments, racing back and forth in history from Torquemada to Dick Cheney". (Adam Gopnik, "New Yorker"). "A dark but riveting tale, told with luminous grace". (Michael Sandel, author of "Justice" and "What Money Can't Buy"). ""God's Jury" is a reminder, and we need to be constantly reminded, that the most dangerous people in the world are the righteous". (Mark Bowden, author of "Black Hawk Down" and "Guest of the Ayatollah").