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Book SynopsisThis collection brings together the best 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 Attached to each essay are primary historical documents that deal with issues of survival, resistance, accommodation, and adaptation, all of which illuminate the complexity and diversity of American Indian experiences.
Trade Review"Pairing well-chosen primary sources with the best in contemporary scholarship, Nancy Shoemaker has devised an extraordinary book. Using treaty speeches, government documents, memoirs, and oral history, she matches Native voices with those of colonizers, bureaucrats, and historians. Lively and accessible introductions frame questions of method, evidence, historiography and analysis, making
American Indians a compelling classroom book."
Philip Deloria, University of Colorado.Table of ContentsSeries Editor's Preface viii
Introduction 1
Part I: Ancient America 11
Introduction 11
Article: The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans Neal Salisbury 12
Documents 30
Nanih Waiya, The Sacred Mound of the Choctaws 30
H. S. Halbert
Legend of Nanih Wayah 39
Muriel Hazel Wright
Further Reading 45
Part II: First Encounters 46
Introduction 46
Article: The Anglo-Algonquian Gender Frontier 48
Kathleen M. Brown
Documents 63
Castañeda's History of the Expedition 64
Pedro de Castañeda of Náxera
Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618 71
Samuel de Champlain
Further Reading 77
Part III: International Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange 78
Introduction 78
Article: Dressing for Success on the Mohawk Frontier: Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian Fashion: Timothy J. Shannon 79
Documents 103
Excerpts from the Treaty of Lancaster, 1744 104
Witham Marshe's Journal of the Treaty Held with the Six Nations by the Commissioners of Maryland, and Other Provinces, at Lancaster 114
Further Reading 127
Part IV: Cherokee Removal 128
Introduction 128
Article: Evidence of Surplus Production in the Cherokee Nation Prior to Removal David M. Wishart 130
Documents 148
Excerpts from Census Roll, 1835, of the Cherokee Indians East of the Mississippi 150
Three excerpts from The Cherokee Phoenix 152
Further Reading 160
Part V: Sacred Places 162
Introduction 162
Article: The Sacred Black Hills: An Ethnohistorical Review 164
Linea Sundstrom
Documents 191
Land of the Spotted Eagle: Luther Standing Bear 191
The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt: Raymond J. DeMallie 200
Further Reading 207
Part VI: Boarding Schools 208
Introduction 208
Article: "Hm! White Boy! You Got No Business Here!" 209
K. Tsianina Lomawaima.
Documents 235
Supplemental Report on Indian Education 235
Thomas J. Morgan
Education of the American Indian: Henry Roe Cloud 240
Further Reading 245
Part VII: Red Power 247
Introduction 247
Article: Remembering Alcatraz: Twenty-five Years After: Troy Johnson and Joane Nagel 248
Documents 259
Alcatraz, Activism, and Accommodation 260
Vine Deloria, Jr
Mankiller: A Chief and Her People 267
Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallis
Further Reading 278
Index 279
