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American Indian Past and Present

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ISBN-10: 0806138564

ISBN-13: 9780806138565

Edition: 6th 2008

Authors: Roger L. Nichols

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The sixth edition features 16 new contributions along with 10 classic essays
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Book details

List price: $39.95
Edition: 6th
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date: 3/15/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English

List of maps
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Important Events in Native American History
Invasions and Colonialism
How Indians Got Red
Spanish Missions, Cultural Conflict, and the Pueblo Revolt of 1680
King Philip's Herds: Indians, Colonists and the Problem of Livestock in Early New England
Change and Continuity
The Rise and Fall of Plains Indian Horse Cultures
The Indians' New World: The Catawba Experience
The Delaware Prophet Neolin: A Reappraisal
Facing the United States
"We Have Always Been the Frontier": The American Revolution in Shawnee Country
Removing the Heart of the Choctaw People: Indian Removal from a Native Perspective
Backdrop for Disaster: Causes of the Arikara War of 1823
Plains Indian Women and Interracial Marriage in the Upper Missouri Trade, 1804-1868
Touching the Pen: Plains Indian Treaty Councils in Ethnohistorical Perspective
Reservations, Resistance, and Renewal
"They Mean to be Indians Always": The Origins of Columbia River Indian Identity, 1860-1885
Turning the Tables on Assimilation: Oglala Lakotas and the Pine Ridge Day Schools, 1889-1920
The Allotment Period on the Nez Perce Reservation: Encroachments, Obstacles, and Reactions
Toward the Mainstream
More Than a Game: The Carlisle Indians Take to the Gridiron, 1893-1917
Alcohol and the Anishinaabeg of Minnesota in the Early Twentieth Century
"The Old System is No Success": The Blackfeet Nation's Decision to Adopt the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934
Changing Lives and Federal Policies
The "Making" of the Navajo Worker: Navajo Households, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and Off-Reservation Wage Work, 1948-1960
Termination and the Eastern Band of Cherokees
The Indian Health Service and the Sterilization of Native American Women
Alcatraz, Wounded Knee, and Beyond: The Nixon and Ford Administrations Respond to Native American Protest
"Constructing" Nations Within States: The Quest for Federal Recognition by the Catawba and Lumbee Tribes
Conclusion
Study Questions
Contributors