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This history of Native Americans, from the period of first contactto the present day, offers an important variation to existingstudies by placing the lives and experiences of Native Americancommunities at the center of the narrative. Presents an innovative approach to Native American history byplacing individual native communities and their experiences at thecenter of the study Following a first chapter that deals with creation myths, theremainder of the narrative is structured chronologically, coveringover 600 years from the point of first contact to the presentday Illustrates the great diversity in American Indian culture andemphasizes the importance of Native Americans in the history ofNorth America Provides an excellent survey for courses in Native Americanhistory * Includes maps, photographs, a timeline, questions fordiscussion, and "A Closer Focus" textboxes that providebiographies of individuals and that elaborate on the text, exposing students to issues of race, class, and gender
Auteur
Michael Leroy Oberg is Professor of History at the University of Houston. He is author of Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 15851686 (1999; 2003), Uncas: First of the Mohegans (2003; 2007), and The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Lost Tribes and Lost Colonies at Roanoke Island (2007; 2010), and editor of Samuel Wiseman's Book of Record: The Official Account of Bacon's Rebellion in Virginia, 16761677 (2005; 2009). In addition to teaching, Oberg received a SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2003.
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Offering an important variation to existing studies, Native America: A Brief History places the lives and experiences of native communities at the center of the narrative. Chronologically organized and covering the period of first contact to the present day, Oberg focuses on 11 native communities in all parts of the United States, including the Mohegans, the Cherokee, the Powhatans, the Dakota Sioux, and the Pueblos, whose experiences encapsulate the principal themes and developments in Native American history. He describes the complex relationships they maintained with the colonial powers and, later, the United States and provides readers with an insight into the enormous diversity and varied experiences of Native Americans.
Written in a highly accessible style, Oberg provides an engaging and concise text that remains focused on Indian peoples and emphasizes their importance in the history of the United States.
Résumé
This history of Native Americans, from the period of first contact to the present day, offers an important variation to existing studies by placing the lives and experiences of Native American communities at the center of the narrative.
Contenu
List of Figures viii
List of Maps x
Introduction 1
1 Myths and Legends 7
The Beginning of the World 7
Rules for Living 13
Bears 24
2 Worlds New and Worlds Old 26
The Fundamental Violence of Discovery 26
Paths of Destruction 28
Tsenacommacah 36
The Mohegans 46
New Worlds 51
3 Living in the New World 53
Mourning Wars 53
Colonizing the Mohegans 58
The Word of God 61
Colonizing the Powhatans 65
Forging the Covenant Chain 69
Native Peoples and the French in a World of War 70
The Pueblos' Revolt 75
Horses 79
The Grand Settlement 84
The Cherokees 86
Native Peoples and the Nature of Empires 90
4 Native Peoples and the Fall of European Empires 92
Penn's Woods 92
The Potawatomis in a World of Confl icting Empires 93
Settlement and Unsettledness 97
Life at the Western Door 101
Behind the Frontier 103
The Great Wars for Empire 111
The Proclamation and the Indian Boundary Line 123
Indians and Empires 126
5 Native Peoples and the Rise of a New American Empire 128
Change in the Far Western World 128
Declarations of Independence 138
The Revolution and the Longhouse 141
Cherokees and Chickamaugas 146
England's Allies and the Confederation 149
The Six Nations and the Empire State 152
Confederations 154
A New Order for the Ages 156
A Year of Consequence: 1794 160
The White Man's Republic 162
6 Relocations and Removes 165
The Mohegans' Struggle for Independence 165
The Rise of the Prophet 170
Handsome Lake 176
Dispossessing the Senecas 181
Pioneers and Exiles 185
Removing from the Missions 198
The Optimism of the Imperialist 199
7 The Invasion of the Great West 201
Pledges and Promises 201
Settling in and Settling down 211
Homesteaders 214
Concentration 219
The Indians' Civil War 228
Peace and War 232
8 The Age of Dispossession 248
"Conform To It or Be Crushed By It" 248
Ghost Dancers 250
The Assault on Indian Identity 253
Living under the New Regime 258
The New Life in the Indian Territory 262
The Crows and Life on the Northern Plains 272
Native Peoples in the Eastern United States 277
A Movement for Reform 285
The Origins of the Indian New Deal 288
9 New Deals and Old Deals 291
Reforming Indian Policy 291
Native Peoples and World War II 298
Termination and the Coalminer's Canary 304
Cleaning the Slate 312
New Frontiers 315
Red Power 318
10 Sovereign Nations and Colonized Nations 324
Self-Determination 324
The State of the Nations 326
Exercising Sovereignty 336
Toward the Future 345
Appendix I A Reference Timeline 349
Appendix II Discussion Points for Native America: A Brief History 360
Select Bibliography 363
Index 378