This Indian Country American Indian Activists and the Place They Made

Name: This Indian Country American Indian Activists and the Place They Made
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ISBN: 9780143124023

ISBN-10: 0143124021

ISBN-13: 9780143124023

Edition: 2013

Authors: Frederick Hoxie

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A comprehensive history of the heroic men and women who led the struggle for Indian rightsIn this bold and sweeping counternarrative to our conventional understanding of Native American history, celebrated academic historian Frederick E. Hoxie presents the story of Native American political activisma chronicle that spans more than two hundred years. Highlighting the activistssome famous and some unknown beyond their own communitieswho have sought to bridge the distance between indigenous cultures and the U.S. republic through legal and political campaigns, Hoxie weaves a powerful narrative that connects the individual to the tribe, the tribe to the nation, and the nation to broader…

Book details

List price: $20.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/26/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Frederick E. Hoxie is Swanlund Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and the author of several books, including The People: A History of Native America . Jay T. Nelson is a program assistant at the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History, the Newberry Library.



Introduction



Erased From the Map



The First Indian Lawyer: James McDonald, Choctaw



The Mountaintop Principality of San Marino: William Potter Ross, Cherokee



The Winnemucca Rules: Sarah Winnemucca, Paiute



The U.S. Court of Claims: The Mille Lacs Ojibwes



The Good Citizenship Gun: Thomas Sloan, Omaha



Three Indians "Who Didn't Live at Taos: Robert Yellowtail, Crow; Alice Jemison, Seneca; and D'Arcy McNickle, Salish



Indian American or American Indian? Vine Deloria, Jr., Sioux


Afterword: This Indian Country


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index