Title: The American Indian and the problem of history /
Authors: Martin, Calvin.
Date: 1987
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Physical description: xiv, 232 p. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: E
Contents: Introduction : An introduction aboard the Fidèle -- The metaphysics of writing Indian-white history / Calvin Martin -- Cultural pluralism versus ethnocentrism in the new Indian history / Robert F. Berkhofer, Jr. -- American Indians and American history / Neal Salisbury -- Thoughts on early Canadian contact / Cornelius J. Jaenen -- Demographics of Native American history / Henry F. Dobyns -- Pagans, converts, and backsliders, all : a secular view of the metaphysics of Indian-white relations / Mary Young -- Revision and reversion / Vine Deloria, Jr. -- Distinguishing history from moral philosophy and public advocacy / Wilcomb E. Washburn -- Indians on the shelf / Michael Dorris -- The metaphysics of dancing tribes / Richard Drinnon -- On the revision of monuments / Frederick Turner -- Envision ourselves darkly, imagine ourselves richly / Christopher Vecsey -- Fox and chickadee / Robin Ridington -- I may connect time / Peter Iverson -- Present memories, past history / Peter Nabokov -- Personal reflections / N. Scott Momaday -- White Buffalo Woman / Henrietta Whiteman -- From a native daughter / Haunani-Kay Trask -- Socioacupuncture : mythic reversals and the striptease in four scenes / Gerald Vizenor -- Epilogue : Time and the American Indian.
Subject headings (LCSH): Canada--Historiography.; Indians of North America--Historiography.; United States--Historiography.