American Indians

This collection brings together the best recent essays covering over five hundred years of American Indian history. Attached to each essay are primary historical documents that deal with issues of survival, resistance, accommodation, and adaptation, all of which illuminate the complexity and diversity of American Indian experiences.

Nancy Shoemaker is Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century (1999), and editor of Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women (1995). She has also published articles on American Indian history in The American Historical Review, The Western Historical Quarterly, and The Journal of Women's History.

Series Editor's Preface

viii

Introduction

1

(10)

Ancient America

11

(35)

Introduction

11

(1)

Article: The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of European

12

(18)

Neal Salisbury

Documents:

30

(15)

Nanih Waiya, The Sacred Mound of the Choctaws

30

(9)

H. S. Halbert

Legend of Nanih Wayah

39

(6)

Muriel Hazel Wright

Further Reading

45

(1)

First Encounters

46

(32)

Introduction

46

(2)

Article: The Anglo-Algonquian Gender Frontier

48

(15)

Kathleen M. Brown

Documents:

63

(14)

Castaneda's History of the Expedition

64

(7)

Pedro de Castaneda

Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618

71

(6)

Samuel de Champlain

Further Reading

77

(1)

International Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange

78

(50)

Introduction

78

(1)

Article: Dressing for Success on the Mohawk Frontier: Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian Fashion

79

(24)

Timothy J. Shannon

Documents:

103

(24)

Excerpts from the Treaty of Lancaster, 1744

104

(10)

Witham Marshe's Journal of the Treaty Held with the Six Nations by the Commissioners of Maryland, and Other Provinces, at Lancaster

114

(13)

Further Reading

127

(1)

Cherokee Removal

128

(34)

Introduction

128

(2)

Article: Evidence of Surplus Production in the Cherokee Nation Prior to Removal

130

(18)

David M. Wishart

Documents:

148

(12)

Excerpts from Census Roll, 1835, of the Cherokee Indians East of the Mississippi

150

(2)

Three Excerpts from The Cherokee Phoenix

152

(8)

Further Reading

160

(2)

Sacred Places

162

(46)

Introduction

162

(2)

Article: The Sacred Black Hills: An Ethnohistorical Review

164

(27)

Linea Sundstrom

Documents:

191

(16)

Land of the Spotted Eagle

191

(9)

Luther Standing Bear

The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to

200

(7)

John G. Neihardt

Raymond J. DeMallie

Further Reading

207

(1)

Boarding Schools

208

(39)

Introduction

208

(1)

Article: ``Hm! White Boy! You Got No Business Here!''

209

(26)

K. Tsianina Lomawaima

Documents:

235

(10)

Supplemental Report on Indian Education

235

(5)

Thomas J. Morgan

Education of the American Indian

240

(5)

Henry Roe Cloud

Further Reading

245

(2)

Red Power

247

(32)

Introduction

247

(1)

Article: Remembering Alcatraz: Twenty-five Years After

248

(11)

Troy Johnson

Joane Nagel

Documents:

259

(19)

Alcatraz, Activism, and Accommodation

260

(7)

Vine Deloria, Jr

Mankiller: A Chief and Her People

267

(11)

Wilma Mankiller

Michael Wallis

Further Reading

278

(1)

Index

279

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