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The American Indian : past and present / edited by Roger L. Nichols.

Title
The American Indian : past and present / edited by Roger L. Nichols.
Publication
New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1986.

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Additional Authors
Nichols, Roger L.
Description
x, 312 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
Indians of North America
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 307-312.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Agriculture, Indians, and American history / Thomas R. Wessel -- The Indians' new world: the Catawba experience / James H. Merrell -- Farmers, warriors, traders: a fresh look at Ojibway women / Priscilla K. Buffalohead -- Virgin soil epidemics as a factor in the aboriginal depopulation in America / Alfred W. Crosby -- The unkindest cut, or who invented scalping? / James Axtell and William C. Sturtevant -- Fighting "fire" with firearms: the Anglo-Powhatan arms race in early Virginia / J. Frederick Fausz -- Red Puritans: the "praying Indians" of Massachusetts Bay and John Eliot / Neal Salisbury -- Red-White power relations and justice in the courts of seventeenth century New England / Lyle Koehler -- War and culture: the Iroquois experience / Daniel K. Richter -- The Indian in nineteenth-century America: a unique minority / Roger L. Nichols -- American Indian policy in the old Northwest, 1783-1812 / Reginald Horsman -- The Cherokee nation: mirror of the republic / Mary Young -- Backdrop for disaster: causes of the Arikara War of 1823 / Roger L. Nichols -- Indians in Los Angeles, 1781-1875 / George Harwood Phillips -- The cultural landscape of the Pawnees / Richard White -- Legacies of the Dawes Act: bureaucrats and land thieves at the Cheyenne-Arapaho agencies of Oklahoma / Donald J. Berthrong -- Educating Indian girls at nonreservation boarding schools, 1878-1920 / Robert A. Trennert -- The history of Indian citizenship / Michael T. Smith -- The Indian Reorganization Act: the dream and the reality / Lawrence C. Kelly -- Inconstant advocacy: the erosion of Indian fishing rights in the Pacific Northwest, 1933-1956 / Donald L. Parman -- The Menominee: a case against termination / League of Women Voters -- Indians and immigrants: a comparison of groups new to the city / Arthur Margon -- Civil rights, Indian rites / Robert S. Michaelsen -- Tribalism rejuvenated: the Native American since the era of termination / William T. Hagan.
ISBN
0394352386 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^^85010072^
OCLC
  • 12105895
  • SCSB-9907992
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library