They Made Us Many Promises : The American Indian Experience, 1524 to the Present

by Weeks, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780882959658
• ISBN10: 0882959654
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-12-31
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A descendant of The American Indian Experience, this compelling anthology showcases the work of sixteen specialists. Those chapters retained from the original volume have been carefully revised to make them more accessible to the average undergraduate, while six entirely new and original essays consider important topics: American Indian women; Indian-Spanish relations in the Greater Southwest in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Indian affairs during the Civil War; the ongoing issue of Native Sovereignty; U.S. Indian policy since the Nixon Administration; and the emotional fight over Repatriation.

Designed for use as a core text in one- or two-semester courses in American Indian History or as a supplement to any standard U.S. History survey, "They Made Us Many Promises" is certain to challenge readers' assumptions about the past and current roles of Indians in American society.

Table of Contents

Foreword	ix
The Authors	xi
Part I A World Turned Upside Down	1	(122)
Black Gowns and Massachusetts Men: Indian-White Relations in New France and New England to 1701	3	(29)
James P. Ronda
Mutual Distrust and Mutual Dependency: Indian-White Relations in the Era of the Anglo-French Wars for Empire, 1689-1763	32	(17)
Dwight L. Smith
Facing Off: Indian-Spanish Rivalry in the Greater Southwest, 1528-1821	49	(18)
David La Vere
The Trail of Tears: Removal of the Southern Indians in the Jeffersonian-Jacksonian Era	67	(18)
Theda Perdue
Blue, Gray, and Red: Indian Affairs during the American Civil War	85	(20)
Phillip Weeks
Ambiguity and Misunderstanding: The Struggle between the U.S. Army and the Indians for the Great Plains	105	(18)
Thomas W. Dunlay
Part II Visions of a New Order	123	(106)
The Bitter Years: Western Indian Reservation Life	125	(20)
Donald J. Berthrong
Reformers' Images of the American Indians: The Late Nineteenth Century	145	(10)
William T. Hagan
From Bullets to Boarding Schools: The Educational Assault on American Indians	155	(20)
David Wallace Adams
The Divided Heart: The Indian New Deal	175	(18)
Graham D. Taylor
Dislocated: The Federal Policy of Termination and Relocation, 1945-1960	193	(17)
Donald L. Fixico
Finally Acknowledging Native Peoples: American Indian Policies since the Nixon Administration	210	(19)
Laurence M. Hauptman
Part III The Night is Far Gone, The Day is Near	229	(96)
Bury My Heart in Smog: Urban Indians	231	(13)
Blue Clark
Native Sovereignty: Then and Now in California and the Northwest	244	(25)
Clifford E.Trafzer
Traditions and Transformations: American Indian Women in Historical Perspective	269	(22)
Paivi Hoikkala
Our Dead Are Never Forgotten: American Indian Struggles for Burial Rights and Protections	291	(34)
James Riding In
Index	325