American Nations

by Hoxie, Frederick E.; Mancall, Peter C.; Merrell, James H.

• ISBN13: 9780415927499
• ISBN10: 0415927498
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This volume brings together an impressive collection of important works covering nearly every aspect of early Native American history, from contact and exchange to diplomacy, religion, warfare, and disease.

Table of Contents

Introduction	xi
Chronology	xv
PART I: AGENCY AMID CONQUEST, 1850-1900	1	(62)
The Navajo at Bosque Redondo: Cooperation, Resistance, and Initiative, 1864--1868	2	(12)
Katherine M. B. Osburn
Crazy Horse and the End of the Great Sioux War	14	(32)
Kingsley M. Bray
``I See What I Have Done'': The Life and Murder Trial of Xwelas, a S'Klallam Woman	46	(17)
Coll-Peter Thrush
Robert H. Keller, Jr.
PART II: RESERVATION CULTURES, 1880--1930	63	(78)
Signatures and Thumbprints: Ethnicity among the White Earth Anishinaabeg, 1889--1920	64	(30)
Melissa L. Meyer
Naalyehe Ba--Hooghan--``House of Merchandise'': The Navajo Trading Post as an Institution of Cultural Change, 1900--1930	94	(16)
Robert S. McPherson
The Birth of the Reservation: Making the Modern Individual among the Lakota	110	(31)
Thomas Biolsi
PART III: GENDER AND CULTURE CHANGE	141	(58)
``Right in the Midst of My Own People'': Native American Women and the Field Matron Program	142	(14)
Lisa E. Emmerich
``If We Get the Girls, We Get the Race'': Missionary Education of Native American Girls	156	(16)
Carol Devens
Making Savages of Us All: White Women, Pueblo Indians, and the Controversy over Indian Dances in the 1920s	172	(27)
Margaret D. Jacobs
PART IV: RELIGIOUS INNOVATION AND SURVIVAL	199	(64)
Reservation Leadership and the Progressive-Traditional Dichotomy: William Wash and the Northern Utes, 1865--1928	200	(20)
David Rich Lewis
Red Lilac of the Cayugas: Traditional Indian Law and Culture Conflict in a Witchcraft Trial in Buffalo, New York, 1930	220	(22)
Sidney L. Harring
Shamanism and Christianity: Modern Tlingit Elders Look at the Past	242	(21)
Sergei Kan
PART V: CULTURAL AND POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS, 1900--1950	263	(66)
Exploring a Cultural Borderland: Native American Journeys of Discovery in the Early Twentieth Century	264	(24)
Frederick E. Hoxie
The Tribal Reorganization of the Stockbridge-Munsee: Essential Conditions in the Re-Creation of a Native American Community, 1930--1942	288	(24)
John C. Savagian
Jim Crow in Alaska: The Passage of the Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945	312	(17)
Terrence M. Cole
PART VI: INDIAN ACTIVISM AND CULTURAL RESURGENCE	329	(102)
American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Politics and the Resurgence of Identity	330	(24)
Joane Nagel
``We Don't Want Your Rations, We Want This Dance'': The Changing Use of Song and Dance on the Southern Plains	354	(20)
Clyde Ellis
The Bloody Wake of Alcatraz: Political Repression of the American Indian Movement during the 1970s	374	(36)
Ward Churchill
Riding the Paper Tiger	410	(21)
Robert L. Bee
PART VII: PERSPECTIVES ON NATIVE AMERICA, 2000	431	(70)
``Our Lives Have Been Transmuted, Changed Forever''	432	(26)
Fergus M. Bordewich
Research, Redskins, and Reality	458	(10)
Vine Deloria, Jr
Gaming and Recent American Indian Economic Development	468	(12)
Joseph G. Jorgensen
Native Americans in America: A Theoretical and Historical Overview	480	(21)
Peter d'Errico
Further Reading	501	(4)
Notes on Contributors	505	(2)
Permissions Acknowledgments	507	(2)
Index	509