American Indians in American history, 1870-2001
Subtitle: a companion reader
By: edited by Sterling Evans ; foreword by Donald L. Fixico.
Contributors: Evans, Sterling, 1959-
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
Subjects: Indians of North America -- History -- 19th century.; Indians of North America -- History -- 20th century.; Indians of North America -- Government relations.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-223) and index.
Table of contents: title: PART I: THE 1870s AND 1880s: THE CLASH OF CULTURES: Being native to this place / Raymond Pierotti (Comanche) and Daniel R. Wildcat (Yuchi); title: Wars of the peace policy, 1869-1886 / Robert M. Utley; title: PART II: THE 1890s AND EARLY 1900s: ASSIMILATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS: Becoming a community: the Nez Perces confront the Dawes Act / Elizabeth James-Stern; title: Federal Indian education / Margaret Connell Szasz; title: "The Father tells me so!" Wovoka: the ghost dance prophet / L. G. Moses; title: Progressive-Era bureaucrats and the unity of Twentieth-Century Indian policy / Russel Lawrence Barsh; title: PART III: THE 1930s-1945: AMERICAN INDIANS DURING DEPRESSION AND WAR: The Indian New Deal as a mirror of the future / D'Arcy McNickle (Salish-Kutenai); title: Fighting a White man's war: the extent and legacy of American Indian participation in World War II / Tom Holm (Creek, Cherokee); title: PART IV: 1945-1960: TERMINATION, RELOCATION, AND STEREOTYPES: Building toward self-determination: Plains and Southwestern Indians in the 1940s and 1950s / Peter Iverson; title: The labor of extras: American Indians in Hollywood, 1941-1960 / Liza Black; title: PART V: THE 1960s and 1970s: SELF-DETERMINATION, ACTIVISM, AND SPIRITUAL RIGHTS: Federal Indian policy and self-determination during the Kennedy and Johnson years / Thomas Clarkin; title: A Journey to freedom: Richard Oakes, American Indian activism, and the occupation of Alcatraz / Kent Blansett (Cherokee); title: The Peyote Religion and the Native American Church / Daniel C. Swan; title: PART VI: THE 1980s-2000: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN INDIAN ISSUES: Commonality of difference: American Indian women and history / Devon A. Mihesuah (Choctaw); title: Repatriation, reburial, and religious rights / Walter R. Echo-Hawk (Pawnee) and Roger C. Echo-Hawk (Pawnee); title: Coyote's game: Indian casinos and the Indian presence in contemporary America / Christopher L. Miller; title: The demand for natural resources on reservations / Donald L. Fixico (Creek, Sac, and Fox, Seminole, Shawnee)