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Title

Major problems in American Indian history : documents and essays / edited by Albert L. Hurtado, Peter Iverson.

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hurtado, Albert L., 1946-
• Iverson, Peter.

Description

xvii, 520 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Each chapter includes documents and essays relating to the chapter's central theme, many of which are written by Native Americans.

Series Statement

Major problems in American history series

Uniform Title

Major problems in American history series

Subject

• Indians of North America
• Indians of North America > History
• Indians of North America > History > Sources

Genre/Form

• Aufsatzsammlung.
• History
• Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• 1. Interpreting the Indian past. Ethics and responsibilities in writing American Indian history / Donald L. Fixico ; Indian peoples and the natural world: asking the right questions / Richard White -- 2. Indian history before Columbus. A Pueblo song of the sky loom, n.d. ; Maidu account of the beginning of the world, n.d. ; A Skagit belief about the origins of the world, n.d. ; The Arikaras describe their origins, n.d. ; The Iroquois depict the world on the turtle's back, n.d. ; The Indians' old world: Native Americans and the coming of Europeans / Neal Salisbury ; Towns, mounds, and kachinas / Stephen Plog --^
• 3. Indians and Europeans meet. Columbus on the Indians' "discovery" of the Spanish, 1492 ; Spain requires the Indians to submit to Spanish authority, 1513 ; Augustin Rodriguez describes the Rio Grande Pueblos, 1581-1582 ; Jacques Cartier on the Micmacs meeting the French, 1534 ; Powhatan speaks to Captain John Smith, 1609 ; William Bradford on Samoset, Squanto, Massasoit, and the Pilgrims, 1620 ; Early Native American responses to European contact / Bruce G. Trigger ; The Indians' new world: the Catawba experience / James H. Merrell --^
• ^4. The southern borderlands. Pedro Naranjo's(Keresan Pueblo) explanation of the 1680 Pueblo revolt, 1681 ; Juan (Tiwa Pueblo) explains the Pueblo revot, 1681 ; A Luiseno recollection of mission life, 1812 ; A Costanoan account of the murder of a missionary, 1812 ; Pope, Pose-yemu, and Naranjo: a new look at leadership in the Pueblo revolt of 1680 / Stefanie Beninato ; The staff of leadership: Indian authority in the missions of Alta California / Steven W. Hackel --^
• 5. The northern borderlands. Joseph Fish preaches to the Narragansett Indians, 1768 ; Samson Occom (Mohegan) gives a short narrative of his life, 1768 ; Christien LeClerq (Micmac) responds to the French, 1677 ; J.B. Truteau's description of Indian women on the Upper Missouri, 1794 ; James Sutherland notes Canadian traders who wish to buy an Indian slave, 1797 ; The role of Native American women in the fur trade society of western Canada, 1670-1830 / Sylvia Van Kirk ; Changing conditions of life for Indian women in eighteenth-century New England / Jean M. O'Brien (Ojibwe) --^
• 6. New nations, new boundaries: American Revolution in Indian country. Speech of Congress to visiting Iroquois delegation, 1776 ; Nathaniel Gist of Virginia addresses the Cherokee chiefs, 1777 ; Dragging Canoe (Cherokee) replies to Colonel Gist, 1777 ; Mary Jemison's (Seneca) memory of the Revolution, 1775-1779 ; Treaty of Fort Stanwix, 1784 ; The aftermath of the Revolution in Indian country / Colin Calloway ; The right to a name: the Narragansett people and Rhode Island officials in the Revolutionary era / Ruth Wallis Herndon and Ella Wilcox Sekatau (Narragansett) --^
• 7. Domestic dependent nations: Indians in the new republic. Northwest Ordinance, 1787 ; Little Turtle (Miami) on the Treaty of Greenville, 1795 ; Tecumseh (Shawnee) speaks out against land cessions, 1810 ; Indian Commissioner Thomas L. McKenney explains removal, 1828 ; Speckled Snake's (Cherokee) reply to President Jackson, 1830 ; Cherokee editor Elias Boudinot opposes removal, 1828 ; Pierre Chardon on sex and marriage with Indians on the Upper Missouri River, 1836-1839 ; Friederich Kurz gives a romantic view of Indian-white love, 1849 ; American Indians on the cotton frontier / Daniel H. Usner, Jr. ; Multiple marriages, many relations: fur trade families on the Missouri River / Tanis Thorne --
• 8. The trans-Mississippi West before 1860. Joseph Antonio Flores describes the Comanche destruction of the San Saba Mission in Texas, 1758 ; A Spanish official gives an analysis of Comanche power, 1758 ; Chief Sharitarish foretells the end of the Pawnee way of life, 1822 ; A California law for the government and protection of the Indians, 1850 ; William Joseph (Nisenan) describes the gold rush, c. 1849 ; An Indian agent views conditions in the California mines, 1854 ; The western Comanche trade center: rethinking the Plains Indian trade system / Pekka Hamalainen ; Indian and white households on the California frontier, 1860 / Albert L. Hurtado --^
• 9. Indian perspectives on the Civil War. Wabasha (Dakota) explains how nefarious trading practices caused the 1862 Minnesota war, 1868 ; Letter from Sarah C. Watie (Cherokee) to her husband, Stand Watie, during the Civil War, 1863 ; Letter from Stand Watie (Cherokee) to his wife, Sarah C. Watie, 1863 ; Act of conscription, Chickasaw Nation, 1864 ; Proclamation ordering conscription in the Chickasaw Nation, 1864 ; Commissioner of Indian Affairs Dennis N. Cooley on the consequences of the Civil War, 1865 ; Deadly currents: John Ross's decision of 1861 / Ari Kelman ; Dakota Sioux uprising, 1862 / Gary Clayton Anderson --^
• 10. Resistance and transition, 1865-1886. Allen P. Slickpoo (Nez Perce) reviews the Nez Perce War (1877), recorded 1973 ; James Harris Guy (Chickasaw), "The white man wants the Indians' home," 1878 ; Luther Standing Bear (Lakota) recalls his experiences at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1879 ; Ace Daklugie, Charlie Smith, and Jasper Kanseah (Chiricahua Apaches) remember Geronimo, n.d. ; Indian scouts and Indian allies in the frontier army / David D. Smits ; "We will make it our own place": agriculture and adaptation at the Grande Ronde Reservation, 1856-1887 / Tracy Neal Leavelle --^
• 11. Restrictions and renewals, 1887-1928. The General Allotment Act (Dawes Act), 1887 ; Cherokee delegates defend their land and institutions, 1895 ; The U.S. Supreme Court supports Indian water rights: Winters v. United States, 1908 ; James Mooney and Francis La Flesche (Omaha) testify about peyote, 1918 ; Carlos Montezuma (Yavapai) on Indian service in World War I and the ongoing struggle for freedom and citizenship, 1919 ; Ojibwe children and boarding schools / Brenda Child (Ojibwe) ; Crow families in transition / Frederick E. Hoxie -- 12. Efforts at reform, 1928-1941. Lewis Meriam summarizes the problems facing American Indians, 1928 ; The Indian Reorganization Act (Wheeler-Howard Act), 1934 ; Rupert Costo (Cahuilla) condemns the Indian New Deal, 1986 ; Ben Reifel (Brule Lakota) praises the legacy of John Collier, 1986 ; The eastern Cherokees and the New Deal / John R. Finger ; The Indian New Deal as mirror of the future / D'Arcy McNickle (Salish-Kutenai) --^
• 13. World War II, termination, and the foundation for self-determination, 1941-1960. Ella Deloria (Yankton Dakota) on Indian experiences during World War II, 1944 ; Ruth Muskrat Bronson (Cherokee) criticizes the proposed termination of federal trusteeship ; John Wooden Legs (Northern Cheyenne) outlines the fight to save the land, 1960 ; Mary Jacobs (Lumbee) relates how her family made a home in Chicago, n.d. ; The Florida Seminoles confront termination / Harry A. Kersey, Jr. ; Building toward self-determination: Plains and Southwestern Indians in the 1940s and 1950s / Peter Iverson --^
• 14. Taking control of lives and lands, 1961-1980. Clyde Warrior (Ponca) delineates five types of Indians, 1965 ; A proclamation from the Indians of all tribes, Alcatraz Island, 1969 ; The Native Alaskan land speaks, 1969 ; Ada Deer (Menominee) explains how her people overturned termination, 1974 ; Eastern Indian communities strive for recognition / Laurence M. Hauptman and Jack Campisi ; The roots of contemporary Native American activism / Troy R. Johnson --^
• 15. Continuing challenges, continuing peoples, 1981-1999. Philip Martin (Choctaw) discusses the challenges of economic development, 1988 ; James Riding In presents a Pawnee perspective on repatriation, 1996 ; Charlene Teters (Spokane) asks "Whose history do we celebrate?" ; Ben Winton (Yaqui) delineates the significance of the Mashantucket Pequot museum, 1998 ; Liz Dominguez (Chumash/Yokuts/Luiseno) hears Ishi's voice, 1998 ; Contemporary Indian economies in New Mexico / Steve Larese ; Coming home / Arvo Quoetone Mikkanen (Kiowa-Comanche) ; Grandmother to granddaughter: generations of oral history in a Dakota family / Angela Cavender Wilson (Wahpatonwan Dakota).

ISBN

0618068546

LCCN

^^^00133872^

OCLC

• 45831882
• SCSB-10922544

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library