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1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 History from the Native American Point of View
Chapter 2 Natives & Newcomers: Fifteenth & Sixteenth Centuries
Chapter 3 The Seventeenth Century Spanish Borderlands and Eastern Woodlands
Chapter 4 The Eighteenth Century to 1763 in Times of Peace and War
Chapter 5 The Indians’ Revolution, 1763-1814: Across the Continent
Chapter 6 A New Order and Expansion West 1820-1850
Chapter 7 Native Americans, the Civil War, and the War for the West, 1850-1877
Chapter 8 Assimilation or Extinction, 1860-1900
Chapter 9 Perseverance and Revival
Chapter 10 Native Americans, the Great Depression & World War II, and the Reorganization of Indian Country, 1930-1950
Chapter 11 Resurgent Indians, 1960-1980
Chapter 12 Native Americans into the Twenty First Century
2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: History from the Native American Point of View
Controversy: Native Americans & Science
Vine Deloria Jr., Native American Geomythology
Calvin Luther Martin, Native Americans, Animals, and the Scientific Problem
Julie Cruikshank, Indigenous Local Knowledge of Glaciers
Native American Voices about Their Beginnings
Hopi Story of the Sunset Crater
Cherokee Origin Story Kana´tî and Selu
The Iroquois Origin Story
Images
Image of the Sunset Crater
Goatherd Mountain and the Shaman
Chapter 2: Natives & Newcomers: Fifteenth & Sixteenth Centuries
New Spain
Excerpts from Florentine Codex Book Twelve
Huamán Poma de Ayala, “Letter to A King”
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca. Portions from “The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca.”
Negotiating North American Exploration & Early Settlement
Iroquoian Speakers and Coastal Algonquians Encounter Jacques Cartier
Le Page Du Pratz, an Eighteenth-Century Dutchman, Witnesses the Decline of the
Mississippian Chiefdoms in the Lower Mississippi Valley.
Thomas Hariot, “A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia .”
Images
Mayan Lords in Glyphs
Huamán Poma de Ayala Drawings
Thomas Hariot’s watercolors
Chapter 3: The Seventeenth Century Spanish Borderlands and Eastern Woodlands
Spanish Borderlands
The Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benevides of 1630, Account of Apache
Puebloan Voices from the Pueblo Revolt of 1680
Songs and Memories of Borderlands Slavery. La Cautiva Marcelina
Settlement in the Eastern Woodlands
Relation of Captain John Smith and his life saved by Pocahontas
Great Lakes Indians establish relations with Samuel de Champlain
Jesuit Paul Le Jeune in 1634, the Montagnais, and the Beaver
Hiacoomes the first Christian Indian, and Minister of Martha’s Vineyard
Jesuit Relation of 1640-1641 “Of the Capture of Two Frenchmen Who Were
Taken to the Country of the Hiroquois (Iroquois) and Their Return to the
Three Rivers.”
Nicholas Perrot Negotiates the Middle Ground
Wampanoag Grievances against the Colonists of New England before the
Outbreak of Metacom’s War, 1675-1676”
Images
Maria de Jesús de Agreda, “Lady in Blue”
John Smith Saved by Pocahontas
An Ottawa Indian
Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century to 1763 in Times of Peace and War
Treaty Language, Land, and Trade
Excerpts from The Great Peace of Montreal between the French & the Iroquois in 1701
The Walking Purchase Treaty
Excerpts from the Albany Congress 1754
Trade in the Southeast among the Creeks and Cherokees
The Indians’ Awakening and War
The Mahican Esther and Moravian Conversion
The Mohegan Minister Joseph Johnson’s Speech to the Oneidas
The Master of Life Speaks to the Wolf in 1763
Pontiac’s Surrender
The Proclamation of 1763
Images
Chickasaw Mapping of their place in the Southeast
Neolin’s Master of Life
The Proclamation Line
The Death of General Wolfe
Chapter 5: The Indians’ Revolution, 1763-1814: Across the Continent
Indians’ Revolution in the East
Lt. Henry Timberlake among the Cherokees
Governor Blacksnake (Chainbreaker) Remembers the Revolution
Captain Pipe Speaks Plainly About the British
Indians’ Revolution in the East Continues
The Western Confederacy of Indians in Brownstown
Moravian Springplace Diary of Cherokee Religious Revivalism
Treaty of Fort Jackson after Creek Redstick Rebellion
Red Jacket’s Speech to the Reverend Jacob Cram (1805)
Indians’ Revolution in the West
Toypurina’s Interrogation from 1785
Spanish Peace with the Comanche Nation in 1786
Images
Timberlake’s Map of the Cherokees on the Eve of the American Revolution
Lands Acquired by the Treaty of Fort Jackson and Table of Lands Returned
Red Jacket
Archangel Raphael at the Mission Santa Inés
Chapter 6: A New Order and Expansion West 1820-1850
Removal & Resistance
Andrew Jackson’s Speech on Indian Removal
Cherokee Phoenix extracts about Indian Removal
Cherokee Women Petition Against Removal
William Apess Account of the Mashpee Revolt
Excerpts from the Treaty of Prarie du Chein (1825)
The New York Oneida negotiate removal to Wisconsin
New Order The West
Reading Lakota Winter Count
Russian Account of the Koniaga Indians
Excerpt from Andele’s Account as a Mexican-Kiowa Captive
Remembering Captivity in the Texas in the WPA Narratives
Images
James Treat’s Journal Entry of Surveying Maine
Map of the Potawotami “Trail of Death”
Captive Spanish Women
Chapter 7: Native Americans, the Civil War, and the War for the West, 1850-1877
Native Voices North and South: The American Civil War
Isaac Newton Parker speaks about Racism within the Union Ranks
The Iroquois in the South
The Cherokees Fight for the Confederacy
Stand Watie talks to his Wife about the War
The Minnesota Indian War: A Forgotten Outcome of the Civil War
Little Crow’s Speech
Taken Captive by the Sioux: Cecilia Campbell Stay’s Account
Searching For Peace: Gabriel Renville and the Dakota Peace Party
Wars for the West
Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1851
George Bent recalls the Sand Creek Massacre
Pretty-Shield and the End of the Buffalo for the Crow Indians
The Kiowa Satank speaks at the Treaty of Medicine Lodge 1867
Plenty-Coups and the Crow fight the Sioux
Luther Standing Bear Recounts the Sioux Defeat of Custer
Chahadineli Benally remembers the Navajo Long Walk
Images
Isaac Newton Parker as a Young Warrior
Stand Watie
Little Crow
Howling Wolf and the End of the Buffalo
Standing Bear Remembers Custer
Chapter 8: Assimilation or Extinction, 1860-1900
Armed Resistance Continues: The Apache Wars
Geronimo Tells his Own Story
Assimilation & Resistance
The Dawes Act
Luther Standing Bear’s Account of Boarding School Life
The Arapaho Carl Sweezy Remembers School
Charles Ohiyesa Eastman sees the Devastation of Wounded Knee
Crashing Thunder and the Peyote Cult
Images
Victorio
Geronimo
Image of Plains Children at Catholic Boarding School
The Seventh Calvary and the Pride In Death
A Sioux Remembers Wounded Knee
Chapter 9: Perseverance and Revival
Outspoken Advocates
Dr. Carlos Montezuma, “The Reservation Fate to the Development of Citizenship”
Chauncey Yellow Robe, “The Menace of the Wild West Show”
Native Americans and the Law
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903)
United States ex rel. Diabo v. McCandless, 18 Federal Reporter (1927)
Primitivism versus Civilization
Zitkala Ša’s “Why I am a Pagan”
“Declaration of All Pueblo Council”
World War I and the American Indian
Dr. Carlos Montezuma, “Drafting Indians and Justice”
Chauncey Yellow Robe, “Indian Patriotism”
Images
The Progressive Indian American”(1913)
“Expectation and Reality” (1916)
The Moki Dance by Walter Hough
Chapter 10: Native Americans, the Great Depression & World War II, and the Reorganization of Indian Country, 1930-1950
The Indian New Deal
The Meriam Report of 1928
The Arts and Crafts Act of 1935
John Collier’s argument for Navajo Stock Reduction
A Cherokee Man Remembers the CCC
The Indian Reorganization Act
A Taos Pueblo, Antonio Luhan, Supports the IRA
World War II, Termination and Relocation:
Navajo Code Talkers Remember the War
An Omaha Indian Serves on the frontlines
The Cheyenne and Arapho Celebrate Their War Veterans
Ada Deer and the Menominee
Don Bread reflects on youth activism in the early 1960s
Klamath Termination and Their Land
Orvis Diabo and the Indian Urban Experience
Images
Navajo Marines
The Navajo Code
Native American Steelworkers
Menominee Drum Members March to State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin
Chapter 11: Resurgent Indians, 1960-1980
Red Power, Vietnam, AIM
John Luke FlyingHorse (Hunkapa/Sioux): His Account of the Vietnam War
“Proclamation of Indians of All Tribes” (November 1969)
Fights for Self-Determination in the 1970s
American Indian Task Force: “We Speak as Indians” (1969)
Navajo Community College/Diné College
Return of Blue Lake to the Taos Pueblos (1970)
American Indian Religious Freedom Act (1978)
The Longest Walk (1978)
Images
Indians in Vietnam: A Native American Medic
The Indian Occupation of Alcatraz
AIM at Wounded Knee
Chapter 12: Native Americans into the Twenty First Century
Government Policy and the Fight for Self-Determination
Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA)
California versus the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians (1987)
Native peoples React to Nuclear Waste Disposal
NAGPRA
A Makah Elder, Helma Swan, Speaks About Indian Whaling
Aesthetics, Politics, and Decolonization
Gerald Vizenor’s use of the “Trickster”
James Welch’s Blackfeet Story
Winona LaDuke speaks out against Nuclear Weapons
Decolonization: Daniel Heath Justice, “Conjuring Marks: Further Indigenous
Empowerment through Literature.”
Images
Indian Gaming
Native American Protests Nuclear Waste Disposal
The Makah Whaler’s Rattle
Makahs Go Whaling in the 1990s
Indian Art: Ace Blue Eagle “The Deer Spirit”
Indian Art: Oscar Howe, “Victory Dance”
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