Title: The earth shall weep : a history of Native America /
Authors: Wilson, James, 1948-
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press ; Distributed by Publishers Group West,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Indians of North America History.; Indians, Treatment of North America.; Indians of North America Government relations.; Indians, North American history
Abstract: Gott, "places the 'Native Americans' at the center of the historical stage, abandoning the traditional version of the American past in which the 'Indians' had a subservient role on the periphery of someone else's epic."--London Literary Review.
Contents: Origins -- This is how It was : Two views of history -- Contact : in the balance -- Invasion -- Northeast : One : 'You will have the worst by our absence' -- Northeast : Two : 'A new found Golgotha' -- New York and the 'Ohio Country' : 'We shall not be like father and son, but like brothers' -- Southeast : 'Get a little further : you are too near me' -- Southwest : Return of the white brother -- The far west : the burning world -- The Great Plains : the heart of everything that is -- Internal frontiers -- Kill the Indian to save the man : assimilation -- New Deal and termination : "let none but the Indian answer" -- The new Indians.