Native American Testimony : Chronicle Indian White Relations from Prophecy Present 1942 2000 (rev Edition)

by Nabokov, Peter; Deloria, Vina

• ISBN13: 9780140281590
• ISBN10: 0140281592
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-12-01
• Publisher: PENGUIN

Summary

Revised to bring this important chronicle to the end of the millennium, anthropologist Peter Nabokov presents a history of Native American and white relations as seen though Indian eyes and told through Indian voices. Beginning with the Indians' first encounters with European explorers, traders, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers to the challenges confronting Native American culture today, Native American Testimony is a series of powerful and moving documents spanning five hundred years of interchange between the two peoples. Drawing from a wide range of sources--traditional narratives, Indian autobiographies, government transcripts, firsthand interviews, and more--Nabokov has assembled a remarkably rich and vivid collection, representing nothing less than an alternate history of North America.

Author Biography

Peter Nabokov is professor of American Indian Studies and World Arts and Cultures at UCLA. His previous books include A Forest of Time, Native American Testimony, Native American Architecture (with Robert Easton), Indian Running, Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior, and Architecture of Acoma Pueblo.

Table of Contents

Foreword	xvii
Vine Deloria, Jr.
Introduction	xxi
PART ONE FIRST ENCOUNTER TO DISPOSSESSION	1	(184)
Premonitions And Prophecies	3	(15)
He Will Use Any Means to Get What He Wants	6	(1)
Dan Katchongva
White Rabbit Got Lotsa Everything	7	(3)
Lucy Young
Visitors from Heaven	10	(2)
Norval Morriseau
Thunder's Dream Comes True	12	(2)
Black Hawk
Easy Life of the Gray-Eyed	14	(1)
James Paytiamo
The Spider's Web	15	(3)
Black Elk
Face to Face	18	(14)
Their Wondrous Works and Ways	21	(3)
Charles Alexander Eastman
Before They Got Thick	24	(1)
Percy Bigmouth
Silmoodawa Gives a Complete Performance	25	(1)
Anonymous
A Different Kind of Man	26	(3)
First Boy
I Hid myself and Watched	29	(3)
Pretty Shield
Jaime
Exchange Between Worlds	32	(17)
Thunder, Dizzying Liquid, and Cups That Do Not Grow	36	(2)
Waioskasit
Keep your Presents	38	(2)
Curly Chief
Give Us Good Goods	40	(1)
Anonymous
You Rot the Guts of our Young Men	41	(1)
King Haglar
Some Strange Animal	42	(3)
Wolf Calf
Buttocks Bags and Green Coffee Bread	45	(2)
Anonymous
The Bewitched Pale Man	47	(2)
Vital Thomas
Bearers of the cross	49	(19)
Burn the Temples, Break Up the Bells	54	(3)
Pedro Naranjo
A Good Indian's Dilemma	57	(1)
Anonymous
We Never Quarrel About Religion	57	(1)
Red Jacket
Janitin Is Named Jesus	58	(2)
Janitin
The Freedom to Work	60	(3)
Pablo Tac
A Shaman Obeys	63	(1)
Pedro Encinales
Always Give Blessings and Be Thankful	64	(4)
Jim Whitewolf
Living Beside Each Other	68	(22)
Remove the Cause of Our Uneasiness	72	(1)
Wahunsonacock
Mary Jemison, Becomes an iroquois	73	(5)
Mary Jemison
Our Very Good Friend Kirk	78	(2)
The Old Snake et al.
The Frenchman Dreams Himself Home	80	(2)
Anonymous
Incident at boyer Creek	82	(3)
Anonymous
Our Stock of Food and Clothes	85	(2)
Aleck Paul
If I could See This Thing	87	(3)
George Bent
The Long Resistance	90	(27)
We Must Be United	95	(3)
Tecumseh
Black Hawk Stands Alone	98	(3)
William Jones
Blood Scattered Like Water	101	(5)
William Benson
Young Men, Go Out and Fight Them	106	(6)
Wooden Leg
Geronimo Puts Down the Gun	112	(5)
Jason Betzinez
The Treaty Trail	117	(28)
Let Us Examine the Facts	121	(3)
Corn Tassel
Osceola Determined	124	(5)
Osceola et al.
My Son, Stop Your Ears	129	(4)
Chief Joseph
We Are Not Children	133	(7)
Medicine Horse et al.
Plenty Coups Travels to Washington	140	(5)
Plenty Coups
Exiles in Their Own Land	145	(25)
Plea from the Chickasaw	151	(1)
Levi Colbert et al.
Tushpa Crosses the Mississippi	152	(5)
James Culberson
Corralling the Navajo	157	(4)
Chester Arthur
The Uprooted Winnebago	161	(3)
Little Hill
Standing Bear's Odyssey	164	(6)
Standing Bear
The Nation's Hoop is Broken and Scattered	170	(15)
The Buffalo Go	174	(2)
Old Lady Horse
Take Care of Me	176	(1)
Wild Cat
I am Alone	176	(2)
Cochise
I Have Spoken	178	(2)
Crazy Horse
I want to Look for My Children	180	(1)
Chief Joseph
No Dawn to the East	181	(1)
Anonymous
Gone Forever	182	(2)
Buffalo Bird Woman
This Awful Loneliness	184	(1)
Anonymous
A Wish	184	(1)
Flint Knife
PART TWO RESERVATION TO RESURGENCE	185	(288)
The Very Small Islands	187	(26)
Treated Better	193	(3)
Wolves
Ree
Yankton Sioux
Passing Hail
Santee Sioux
We Lost Everything	196	(2)
Herrero
The Way Agents Get Rich	198	(4)
Sarah Winnemucca
The Career of Ely Parker	202	(2)
Ely S. Parker
Annie Makes Her Choice	204	(3)
Annie Lowry
We Had Everything to Learn	207	(6)
Carl Sweezy
To Learn Another Way	213	(19)
Responsive and Resistant Students	218	(3)
Ellis B. Childers
Lone Wolf
He Is Not One of Us	221	(3)
Sun Elk
What Harm Is In Our Sun-dance?	224	(1)
Anonymous
We Will Dance	225	(2)
Anonymous
Dr. Fewkes Plays Like a Child	227	(2)
Edmund Nequatewa
Judge Wooden Leg Keeps One Wife	229	(3)
Wooden Leg
The Flood Has Come	232	(24)
A House of Our Own	238	(2)
Joseph La Flesche et al.
Luther's Father Stands Alone	240	(4)
Luther Standing Bear
Half White and Half Indian	244	(2)
John Stands in Timber
We Want to Tell You Something	246	(5)
Albert Yava
He-na Tom, the Hoodwinker	251	(2)
Lucy Thompson
The Dead Did Not Return	253	(3)
Anonymous
Hearts on the Ground	256	(19)
Life on the Checkerboard	262	(1)
Ruth Muskrat Bronson
Big Man's Rules And Laws	263	(2)
Alexander Posy
The Outrage of Allotment	265	(2)
DeWitt Clinton Duncan
Farming and Futility	267	(4)
Martin Charlot
The Hopi Push of War	271	(4)
Helen Sekaquaptewa
A Twentieth-Century Indian Voice	275	(29)
The Best and the Brightest
Society of American Indians	282	(7)
Laughing at Themselves	289	(2)
Anonymous
From Wassaja to Montezuma	291	(4)
Carlos Montezuma
Suddenly a Gate	295	(1)
Michael Posluns
Following the Medicine	296	(4)
Anonymous
Scandal in Oklahoma	300	(4)
Gertrude Bonnin
Interlude of Hope	304	(28)
Hard Times in Sioux Country	311	(2)
John Fire Lame Deer
Neglect Along the Klamath	313	(3)
Robert Spott
The Twenties at San Juan	316	(4)
Alfonso Ortiz
Commissioner Collier is on Our Side	320	(4)
Antonio Luhan
Resisting the Indian new Deal	324	(3)
Rupert Costo
Debate Over IRA	327	(3)
Alfred DuBray
Ramon Roubideaux
Reducing Navajo Sheep	330	(2)
The blind Man's Daughter
In and out of the mainstream	332	(23)
Counting coup in world War Two	338	(3)
Joseph Medicine Crow
A Code Talker Comes Home	341	(3)
Anonymous
The Menominees Are Terminated	344	(4)
DRUMS committee
On Relocation	348	(6)
Bennie Bearskin
Watt Spade
Stopping Erosion	354	(1)
Anonymous
Let's Raise Some Hell	355	(26)
The New Indian Wars	362	(5)
Laura McCloud
Invading Alcatraz	367	(4)
Adam Fortunate Eagle
Discovery: The Beeah Tribe	371	(1)
Anonymous
Birth of AIM	372	(4)
Vernon Bellecourt
Confrontation or Negotiation	376	(5)
Gerald Vizenor
So Long As This Land Exists	381	(23)
Going Back	388	(2)
Little Star
Hopis and the Love Generation	390	(3)
Peter Nuvamsa, Sr.
Fred Coyote
Eskimos and ``The Act''	393	(4)
Fred Bigjim
James Ito-Adler
Dark Sky Over Black Mesa	397	(4)
Asa Bazhonoodah
Indian Children in Crisis	401	(3)
Anonymous
Anonymous
It's hard To Be Indian	404	(37)
What Am I	411	(2)
Anonymous)
Alone and Very Scared	413	(5)
Richard S. Cardinal
Notes from Indian Country	418	(2)
Tim Giago
Before and After Gambling	420	(2)
Jim Northrup
Sovereignty Revitalized	422	(3)
Donald L. Fixico
Restoring Life to the Dead	425	(4)
Rosemary Cambra
First and Last Eskimos	429	(4)
Anonymous
Resistance at Oka	433	(4)
Peter Blue Cloud
Confronting Columbus Again	437	(4)
N. Scott Momaday
Towards a Native Millennium	441	(32)
Thorns in the side	448	(2)
Leslie Logan
History Repeating Itself	450	(2)
Jenine Dumont
Old Names in Charge	452	(4)
Wilma Mankiller
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Different Programs	456	(4)
Ben Bray
Reuniting with Beauty	460	(2)
Rose Johnson/Tososie
Speedboat or Canoe?	462	(3)
Watt Scraper
An Eagle Nation	465	(4)
Carter Revard
The End of the World	469	(4)
the Zuni People
Anonymous
Notes on Sources	473	(20)
Illustration credits	493	(2)
Index	495