Native Historians Write Back

No matter what you know about Lewis and Clark, the Hopi Snake Dance, the occupation of Wounded Knee village, or the Seminole Freedmen claim, you have never before seen those and myriad other historic episodes from these perspectives. In this first-of-its-kind anthology, American Indian scholars examine crucial events in their own nations' histories. On the one hand, these writers represent diverse tribal perspectives. On the other, they share a unifying point of view grounded in ancestral wisdom: the Cosmos is a live being, Earth is our Mother, the North American tribes are engaged in national liberation struggles, and Indigenous realities are as viable as any other. Fanciful? Read this book and see whether you still think so.

Acknowledgments and Editors' Note on Variant Spellings	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Challenging Colonial Thought
Native America Writes Back The Origin of the Indigenous Paradigm in Historiography	p. 9
Native Historians Write Back The Indigenous Paradigm in American Indian Historiography	p. 25
The Lewis and Clark Story, the Captive Narrative, and the Pitfalls of Indian History	p. 41
Hopi Culture and a Matter of Representation	p. 52
Affirming Indigenous Historical Narrative
The United States Has No Jurisdiction in Sioux Territory	p. 71
Wahtohtana héda Ñyút¿achi Mahín Xánje Akípa The Year the Otoe and Missouria Meet the Americans	p. 78
Calling Badger and the Symbols of the Spirit Language The Cree Origins of the Syllabic System	p. 89
Looking after Gdoo-naaganinaa Precolonial Nishnaabeg Diplomatic and Treaty Relationships	p. 93
Asserting the History of Dispossession
Removing the Heart of the Choctaw People Indian Removal from a Native Perspective	p. 105
Decolonizing the 1862 Death Marches	p. 117
The United States v. Yellow Sun et al. (the Pawnee People) A Case Study of Institutional and Societal Racism and U.S. Justice in Nebraska from the 1850s to the 1870s	p. 139
The Ruby Valley Indian Reservation of Northeastern Nevada "Six Miles Square"	p. 162
Examining issues in Light of History
Chairmen, Presidents, and Princesses The Navajo Nation, Gender, and the Politics of Tradition	p. 175
Seminoles and Africans under Seminole Law Sources and Discourses of Tribal Sovereignty and "Black Indian" Entitlement	p. 187
Countering Colonization The Albuquerque Laguna Colony	p. 207
Six Pawnee Crania Historical and Contemporary Issues Associated with the Massacre and Decapitation of Pawnee Indians in 1869	p. 221
Notes	p. 233
Contributors	p. 269
Index	p. 273
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