American Indians / edited by Nancy Shoemaker.
This collection brings together recent essays covering over five hundred years of American Indian history. Attached to each essay are primary historical documents that deal with issues of survival, resistance, accommodation, and adaptation, all of which illuminate the complexity and diversity of Ame...
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Malden, Mass. :
Blackwell,
2001.
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| Series: | Blackwell readers in American social and cultural history ;
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Ancient America. The Indians old world: Native Americans and the coming of Europeans / Neal Salisbury ; Nanih Waiya, the sacred mound of the Choctaws / H.S. Halbert ; Legend of Nanih Wayah / Muriel Hazel Wright
- pt. 2. First encounters. The Anglo-Algonquian gender frontier / Kathleen M. Brown ; Castaęda's history of the expedition / Pedro de Castañeda of Náxera ; Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618 / Samuel de Champlain
- pt. 3. International diplomacy and cultural exchange. Dressing for success on the Mohawk frontier: Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian fashion / Timothy J. Shannon ; Excerpts from the Treaty of Lancaster, 1744 ; Witham Marshe's journal of the treaty held with the Six Nations by the commissioners of Maryland, and other provinces, at Lancaster
- pt. 4. Cherokee removal. Evidence of surplus production in the Cherokee Nation prior to removal / David M. Wishart ; Excerpts from census roll, 1835, of the Cherokee Indians east of the Mississippi ; Three excerpts from The Cherokee Phoenix
- pt. 5. Sacred places. The sacred Black Hills: an ethnohistorical review / Linea Sundstrom ; Land of the spotted eagle / Luther Standing Bear ; The sixth grandfather: Black Elk's teachings given to John G. Neihardt / Raymon J. DeMallie
- pt. 6. Boarding schools. "Hm! White boy! You got no business here!" / K. Tsianina Lomawaima ; Supplemental report on Indian education / Thomas J. Morgan ; Education of the American Indian / Henry Roe Cloud
- pt. 7. Red Power. Remembering Alcatraz: twenty-five years after / Troy Johnson and Joane Nagel ; Alcatraz, activism, and accommodation / Vine Deloria, Jr. ; Mankiller: a chief and her people / Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallis.