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| Preface | |
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| American History Begins: Indian Peoples Before the Advent of Europeans | |
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| The Peopling of America | |
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| Farmers in the Desert Southwest | |
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| Indian Voices: Akimel O'odham Speaker (1775) | |
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| People, Places, and Things: Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon | |
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| Farmers in the Eastern Woodlands | |
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| Villagers of the Far West | |
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| Band Societies of the Western Interior and Far North | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Strangers in Indian Homelands, 1490-1600 | |
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| Indian-Spanish Encounters Beyond North America, 1492-1536 | |
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| Southeastern Chiefdoms Confront Imperial Adventurers | |
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| Indian Voices: A Timucua Chief Defies De Soto, 1539 | |
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| Encounters in the American West | |
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| People, Places, and Things: Spaniards Entering the Southwest: A Navajo View | |
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| Early Contacts in the Northeast | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Native Peoples and the Founding of European Colonies, 1600-1660 | |
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| Struggling for Power in the Northeastern Interior: The Iroquois vs. New France | |
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| Indian Voices: Kiotseaeton, Mohawk Iroquois Diplomat, 1645 | |
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| Coastal Indians and Early European Settlements | |
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| People, Places, and Things: Powhatan's Mantle | |
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| Confronting Spanish Expansion in the Southeast and Southwest | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Worlds in Upheaval, 1660-1720 | |
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| The Northeast: Iroquois Power and European Expansion | |
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| People, Places, and Things: Onondaga Iroquois Artifacts Made from European Metals | |
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| The Southeast: Slaves, Confederacies, and War | |
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| West of the Mississippi: Native Resistance and Cultural Transformation | |
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| Indian Voices: Pedro Naranjo, San Felipe Pueblo, 1681 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Native Americans in Peace and War, 1716-1754 | |
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| Indians and Empires: The East | |
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| Exiles in Their Own Homelands: Indians in the English Colonies | |
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| Native Americans and French Expansion in the Mississippi Valley | |
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| Indian Voices: Stung Serpent, Natchez, 1723 | |
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| Horses and Guns on the Plains | |
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| People, Places, and Things: Spanish Slave-Raiding Expedition, c. 1720 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Native Peoples and Imperial Crises, 1754-1821 | |
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| Eastern Indians and the Seven Years' War, 1754-1761 | |
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| Eastern Indians and the American Revolution, 1761-1783 | |
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| Indian Voices: Joseph Brant (Mohawk), 1789 | |
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| Struggles for Power in the Southern Plains and Southwest, 1754-1810 | |
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| Neophytes, Gentiles, and Colonizers on the Pacific, 1769-1833 | |
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| People, Places, and Things: Ohlones Gambling at Mission Dolores, 1816 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Defense of the Trans-Appalachian Homelands, 1795-1815 | |
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| The Struggle for Autonomy | |
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| People, Places, and Things: Captives | |
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| American Indian Policy | |
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| Revitalization Movements | |
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| Indian Voices: Tecumseh Demands That the British Honor Their Promises!, 1813 | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Suggested Readings | |
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| Western Tribes Meet the Long Knives, 1800-1820 | |
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| Indian Voices: A Piegan (Blackfoot) Describes the Arrival of Horses | |
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| Before Lewis and Clark | |
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| The Tribes Encounter Lewis and Clark | |
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| People, Places, and Things: Mandan Earth Lodges | |
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| The Western Fur Trade | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Indian Removal, 1820-1845 | |
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| Indian Country in the New Republic | |
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| People, Places, and Things: Native American Women as Entrepreneurs | |
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| Jacksonian Indian Policy | |
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| Indian Removal: The Southeast | |
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| Indian Voices: Cherokee Leaders Denounce the Injustices of Removal | |
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| Indian Removal: The Old Northwest | |
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| Fighting Removal: Armed Resistance | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Strangers Invade the West, 1845-1861 | |
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| Indian Territory | |
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| People, Places, and Things: The Cherokee Female Seminary | |
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| Texas | |
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| California | |
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| Indian Voices: William Joseph (Nisenam Tribesman) Describes a Lynching | |
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| The Northwestern Tribes | |
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| The Southwest | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Indian People in the Civil War Era, 1850-1868 | |
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| Civil War in Indian Territory | |
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| Reconstruction in Indian Territory | |
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| Eastern Indians in the Civil War | |
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| Violence in the West | |
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| The Desert Southwest | |
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| Indian Voices: Herrero (Navajo Headman) Testifies About Conditions at Bosque Redondo | |
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| The Plains Tribes During the Civil War Era | |
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| People, Places, and Things: Teepees: "Exceedingly Picturesque and Beautiful" | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Warfare in the West, 1867-1886 | |
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| Cultural Change on the Plains | |
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| The Warfare Continues | |
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| The Northern Plains, 1868-1881 | |
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| Indian Voices: Two Moons (Cheyenne War Chief) Recounts the Battle of Little Big Horn | |
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| Rebellions Against Reservation Life | |
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| The Apaches, 1865-1886 | |
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| People, Places, and Things: Lozen: Shield to Her People | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| "Kill the Indian, Save the Man": Survival in a Shrinking Homeland, 1878-1900 | |
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| Assaults on Indianness | |
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| "Raising Up" the Indians: Schools, Missionaries, and Government Agents | |
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| Prophets, Inventors, and Writers: Indian Resistance in an Age of Oppression | |
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| People, Places, and Things: Teton Lakota Parasol | |
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| Indian Voices: Sarah Winnemucca | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Survival and Renewal, 1900-1930 | |
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| Finding New Places to Be Indian | |
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| The Native American Church | |
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| People, Places, and Things: Monroe Tsa Toke (1904-1937) | |
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| Indian Voices: Charles Eastman Criticizes "Civilization" | |
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| Fighting for the Indian Cause | |
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| Facing Economic Hardship | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Reorganization and War, 1930-1945 | |
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| Pressures Mount for Drastic Change | |
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| Indian Voices: D'Arcy McNickle Reveals His Hopes for Indians in the Future | |
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| People, Places, and Things: Crow Indian Round Hall | |
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| World War II | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Fighting to Be Indians, 1945-1970 | |
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| Indians on the Move | |
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| People, Places, and Things: Chicago American Indian Center | |
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| Termination Takes Shape | |
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| Battling Back | |
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| Indian Voices: Alice Jemison Speaks Out Against Termination | |
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| Gaining Recognition | |
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| New Voices | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Acting Sovereign, 1970-1990 | |
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| Red Power | |
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| Indian Voices: Russell Means Advocates Reviving Indian Traditions | |
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| Victories in Congress and the Courts | |
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| Sovereignty on the Ground | |
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| People, Places, and Things: Indian Governments at Work | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Indians in the New Millennium | |
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| Indian Voices: Joy Harjo Writes About Indian Life | |
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| Tribe or Nation? | |
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| Indian Health | |
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| Struggling Economies | |
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| Who Is an Indian? | |
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| People, Places, and Things: National Museum of the American Indian | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Chronology | |
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| State and Federally Recognized Tribes | |
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| Most Populous Tribes | |
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| Largest Landholding Tribes | |
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| Suggested General Reference Works | |
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| Films and Videos | |
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| List of Tribal Gaming Operations | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |