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Title American Indians / edited by Nancy Shoemaker.

Imprint Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2001.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.0497 Am35i 2001    ---  Available
Description ix, 291 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series Blackwell readers in American social and cultural history ; 2
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents pt. 1. Ancient America. The Indians old world : Native Americans and the coming of Europeans / Neal Salisbury ; Nanih Waiya, the sacred mound of the Choctaws / H. S. Halbert ; Legend of Nanih Wayah / Muriel Hazel Wright -- pt. 2. First encounters. The Anglo-Algonquian gender frontier / Kathleen M. Brown ; Castaeda's history of the expedition / Pedro de Castaņeda of Naxera ; Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618 / Samuel de Champlain -- pt. 3. International diplomacy and cultural exchange. Dressing for success on the Mohawk frontier : Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian fashion / Timothy J. Shannon ; Excerpts from the Treaty of Lancaster, 1744 ; Witham Marshe's journal of the treaty held with the Six Nations by the commissioners of Maryland, and other provinces, at Lancaster -- pt. 4. Cherokee removal. Evidence of surplus production in the Cherokee Nation prior to removal / David M. Wishart ; Excerpts from census roll, 1835, of the Cherokee Indians east of the Mississippi ; Three excerpts from The Cherokee Phoenix -- pt. 5. Sacred places. The Sacred Black Hills : an ethnohistorical review / Linea Sundstrom ; Land of the spotted eagle / Luther Standing Bear ; Sixth grandfather : Black Elk's teachings given to John G. Neihardt / Raymond J. DeMallie -- pt. 6. Boarding schools. "Hm! White boy! You got no business here!" / K. Tsianina Lomawaima ; Supplemental report on Indian education / Thomas J. Morgan ; Education of the American Indian / Henry Roe Cloud -- pt. 7. Red Power. Remembering Alcatraz : twenty-five years after / Troy Johnson and Joane Nagel ; Alcatraz, activism, and accommodation / Vine Deloria, Jr. ; Mankiller : a chief and her people / Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallis.
Subject Indians of North America -- Historiography.
Indians of North America -- Government relations.
Indians, Treatment of -- North America -- History -- Sources.
United States -- History -- Sources.
United States -- Politics and government.
Added Author Shoemaker, Nancy, 1958-
ISBN 0631219951 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0631219943 (alk. paper)

 
    
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