The People: A History of Native America
Note: Each chapter includes a Conclusion and Suggested Readings. 1. American History Begins: Indian Peoples Before the Advent of Europeans The Peopling of America Farmers in the Desert Southwest Indian Voices: Akimel O'odham Speaker (1775) People, Places, and Things: Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon Farmers in the Eastern Woodlands Villagers of the Far West Band Societies of the Western Interior and Far North 2. Strangers in Indian Homelands, 1490-1600 Indian-Spanish Encounters Beyond North America, 1492-1536 Southeastern Chiefdoms Confront Imperial Adventurers Indian Voices: A Timucua Chief Defies De Soto, 1539 Encounters in the American West People, Places, and Things: Spaniards Entering the Southwest: A Navajo View Early Contacts in the Northeast 3. Native Peoples and the Founding of European Colonies, 1600-1660 Struggling for Power in the Northeastern Interior: The Iroquois vs. New France Indian Voices: Kiotseaeton, Mohawk Iroquois Diplomat, 1645 Coastal Indians and Early European Settlements People, Places, and Things: Powhatan's Mantle Confronting Spanish Expansion in the Southeast and Southwest 4. Worlds in Upheaval, 1660-1720 The Northeast: Iroquois Power and European Expansion People, Places, and Things: Onondaga Iroquois Artifacts Made from European Metals The Southeast: Slaves, Confederacies, and War West of the Mississippi: Native Resistance and Cultural Transformation Indian Voices: Pedro Naranjo, San Felipe Pueblo, 1681 5. Native Americans in Peace and War, 1716-1754 Indians and Empires: The East Exiles in Their Own Homelands: Indians in the English Colonies Native Americans and French Expansion in the Mississippi Valley Indian Voices: Stung Serpent, Natchez, 1723 Horses and Guns on the Plains People, Places, and Things: Spanish Slave-Raiding Expedition, c. 1720 6. Native Peoples and Imperial Crises, 1754-1821 Eastern Indians and the Seven Years' War, 1754-1761 Eastern Indians and the American Revolution, 1761-1783 Indian Voices: Joseph Brant (Mohawk), 1789 Struggles for Power in the Southern Plains and Southwest, 1754-1810 Neophytes, Gentiles, and Colonizers on the Pacific, 1769-1833 People, Places, and Things: Ohlones Gambling at Mission Dolores, 1816 7. The Defense of the Trans-Appalachian Homelands, 1795-1815 The Struggle for Autonomy People, Places, and Things: Captives American Indian Policy Revitalization Movements Indian Voices: Tecumseh Demands That the British Honor Their Promises!, 1813 8. Western Tribes Meet the Long Knives, 1800-1820 Indian Voices: A Piegan (Blackfoot) Describes the Arrival of Horses Before Lewis and Clark The Tribes Encounter Lewis and Clark People, Places, and Things: Mandan Earth Lodges The Western Fur Trade 9. Indian Removal, 1820-1845 Indian Country in the New Republic People, Places, and Things: Native American Women as Entrepreneurs Jacksonian Indian Policy Indian Removal: The Southeast Indian Voices: Cherokee Leaders Denounce the Injustices of Removal Indian Removal: The Old Northwest Fighting Removal: Armed Resistance 10. Strangers Invade the West, 1845-1861 Indian Territory People, Places, and Things: The Cherokee Female Seminary Texas California Indian Voices: William Joseph (Nisenam Tribesman) Describes a Lynching The Northwestern Tribes The Southwest 11. Indian People in the Civil War Era, 1850-1868 Civil War in Indian Territory Reconstruction in Indian Territory Eastern Indians in the Civil War Violence in the West The Desert Southwest Indian Voices: Herrero (Navajo Headman) Testifies About Conditions at Bosque Redondo The Plains Tribes During the Civil War Era People, Places, and Things: Teepees: "Exceedingly Picturesque and Beautiful" 12. Warfare in the West, 1867-1886 Cultural Change on the Plains The Warfare Continues The Northern Plains, 1868-1881 Indian Voices: Two Moons (Cheyenne War Chief) Recounts the Battle of Little Big Horn Rebellions Against Reservation Life The Apaches, 1865-1886 People, Places, and Things: Lozen: Shield to Her People 13. "Kill the Indian, Save the Man": Survival in a Shrinking Homeland, 1878-1900 Assaults on Indianness "Raising Up" the Indians: Schools, Missionaries, and Government Agents Prophets, Inventors, and Writers: Indian Resistance in an Age of Oppression People, Places, and Things: Teton Lakota Parasol Indian Voices: Sarah Winnemucca 14. Survival and Renewal, 1900-1930 Finding New Places to Be Indian The Native American Church People, Places, and Things: Monroe Tsa Toke (1904-1937) Indian Voices: Charles Eastman Criticizes "Civilization" Fighting for the Indian Cause Facing Economic Hardship 15. Reorganization and War, 1930-1945 Pressures Mount for Drastic Change Indian Voices: D'Arcy McNickle Reveals His Hopes for Indians in the Future People, Places, and Things: Crow Indian Round Hall World War II 16. Fighting to Be Indians, 1945-1970 Indians on the Move People, Places, and Things: Chicago American Indian Center Termination Takes Shape Battling Back Indian Voices: Alice Lee Jemison Speaks Out Against Termination Gaining Recognition New Voices 17. Acting Sovereign, 1970-1990 Red Power Indian Voices: Russell Means Advocates Reviving Indian Traditions Victories in Congress and the Courts Sovereignty on the Ground People, Places, and Things: Indian Governments at Work 18. Indians in the New Millennium Indian Voices: Joy Harjo Writes About Indian Life Tribe or Nation? Indian Health Struggling Economies Who Is an Indian? People, Places, and Things: National Museum of the American Indian