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• Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1. Fire Mountain:
• Natural and Cultural History 15 --Chapter 2. Batde for the Lands of Lassen 34
• Chapter 3. Return to Wilderness: Searching for Foundations (19164956) 51 --Chapter 4. Conflicts of Political Culture: Barons and Vassals 71 --Chapter 5. The Park as a School of Life: Education vs. Recreation 89 --Chapter 6. Managing Park Resources: Policy Science vs. Political Expediency 111 --An Epilogue 134.

• Narrating the apocalypse : 10,000 BCE-1890
• Purgatory : 1891-1934
• Fighting life : 1914-1945
• Moving on up--termination and relocation : 1945-1970
• Becoming Indian : 1970-1990
• Boom city : tribal capitalism in the twenty-first century
• Digital Indians : 1990-2018.

• Contents Preface
• Chapter 1: Native America
• Chapter 2: The European Invasion
• Chapter 3: Indians in the East
• Chapter 4: Indians in the West
• Chapter 5: Assimilation and Allotment
• Chapter 6: Political Sovereignty and Economic Autonomy
• Chapter 7: Cultural Sovereignty Suggested Readings.
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When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers followed the bison and woolly mammoth over the Bering land mass between Asia and what is now Alaska between 25,000 and 15,000 years ago, settling throughout North America. They describe hunting practices among different tribes, how some made the gradual transition to more settled, agricultural ways of life, the role of kinship and cooperation in Native societies, their varied burial rites and spiritual practices, and many other features of Native American life. Throughout the book, Perdue and Green stress the great diversity of indigenous peoples in America, who spoke more than 400 different languages before the arrival of Europeans and whose ways of life varied according to the environments they settled in and adapted to so successfully. Most importantly, the authors stress how Native Americans have struggled to maintain their sovereignty-first with European powers and then with the United States-in order to retain their lands, govern themselves, support their people, and pursue practices that have made their lives meaningful. Going beyond the stereotypes that so often distort our views of Native Americans, this Very Short Introduction offers an historically accurate, deeply engaging, and often inspiring account of the wide array of Native peoples in America. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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This one-volume narrative history of American Indians in the United States traces the experiences of indigenous peoples from early colonial times to the present day, demonstrating how Indian existence has varied and changed throughout our nation's history. Although popular opinion and standard histories often depict tribal peoples as victims of U.S. aggression, that is only a part of their story. In American Indians in U.S. History. Roger L. Nichols focuses on the ideas, beliefs, and actions of American Indian individuals and tribes, showing them to be significant agents in their own history. Designed as a brief survey for students and general readers, this volume addresses the histories of tribes throughout the entire United States. Offering readers insight into broad national historical patterns, it explores the wide variety of tribes and relates many fascinating stories of individual and tribal determination, resilience, and longterm success. Charting Indian history in roughly chronological chapters, Nichols presents the central issues tribal leaders faced during each era and demonstrates that, despite their frequently changing status, American Indians have maintained their cultures, identities, and many of their traditional lifeways. For from "vanishing" or disappearing into the "melting pot, " American Indians have struggled for sovereignty and are today a larger, stronger part of the U.S. population than they have been in several centuries.
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• Introduction 1 Historiography Philip J. Deloria (University of Colorado) 2 First Contacts John Kicza (Washington State University) 3 Health, Disease, Demography Russell Thornton (University of California, Los Angeles) 4 Wag the Imperial Dog: Indians and Overseas Empires in North America, 1650-1776 Gregory E. Dowd (University of Notre Dame) 5 Native Americans and the United States, Canada, and Mexico R. David Edmunds (Indiana University) 6 Languages: Linguistic Change and the Study of Indian Languages from Colonial Times to the Present Regna Darnell (University of Western Ontario) 7 Native American Systems of Knowledge Clara Sue Kidwell (University of Oklahoma) 8 Native American Spirituality: History, Theory, and Reformulation Lee Irwin (College of Charleston) 9 Indians and Christianity Willard Rollins (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) 10 Kinship, Family Kindreds, and Community Jay Miller (Simon Fraser University) 11 The Nature of Conquest: Indians, Americans, and Environmental History Louis Warren (University of California, Davis) 12 Labor and Exchange in American Indian History Patricia Albers (University of Minnesota) 13 American Indian Warfare: The Cycles of Conflict and the Militarization of Native North America Tom Holm (University of Arizona) 14 Indian Law, Sovereignty, and State Law: Native People and the Law Sidney L. Harring (City University of New York Law School) 15 Federal and State Policies and American Indians Donald Fixico (Western Michigan University) 16 Gender in Native America Betty Bell (University of Michigan) 17 Metis, Mestizo, and Mixed-Blood Jennifer Brown (University of Winnipeg) and Theresa Schenck (Washington State University) 18 Transforming Outsiders: Captivity, Adoption, and Slavery Considered Pauline Turner Strong (University of Texas at Austin) 19 Translation and Cultural Brokerage Eric Hinderaker (University of Utah) 20 Native American Literatures P. Jane Hafen (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) 21 Indigenous Art: Creating Value and Sharing Beauty Nancy Parezo (University of Arizona) 22 Performative Traditions in American Indian History George Moses (Oklahoma State University) 23 American Indian Education: by Indians vs. for Indians K. Tsianina Lomawaima (University of Arizona) 24 Wanted: More Histories of Indian Identity Alexandra Harmon (University of Washington) 25 Sovereignty Gerald Taiaike Alfred (University of Victoria).
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A Companion to American Indian History captures the thematic breadth of Native American history. Twenty-five original essays written by leading scholars, both American Indian and non-American Indian, bring a comprehensive perspective to a history that in the past has been related exclusively by Euro-Americans. The essays cover a wide range of Indian experiences and practices, including contacts with non-Indians, religion, family, economy, law, education, gender, and culture. They reflect new approaches to Native America drawn from environmental, comparative, and gender history in their exploration of compelling questions regarding performance, identity, cultural brokerage, race and blood, captivity, adoption, and slavery. Each chapter also encourages further reading by including a carefully selected bibliography. Intended for students, scholars, and general readers of American Indian history, this timely book is the ideal guide to current and future research.
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This volume covers themes in Native American history from the late 1800s to the present. While generally chronological, the articles are arranged around themes of reservation culture, gender, culture change, religion, Indian renewal and Indian activism, and cultural resurgence. It includes among others, articles on the Plains Wars, Ghost Dance, the reservation system, shamanism, Navajo Changing Woman, tourism and more.
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This book traces the history of the American Indians from their early mastery of the wilderness, through the classical era of their great civilizations, and the dark ages that followed European invasion and conquest. Jennings investigates how the Indians struggled to retain their cultural identity against efforts of government and society to force assimilation onto them. He documents the gradual population and cultural revival among Indians in the 20th century after their catastrophic decline in earlier years. By emphasizing the diversity of Indian cultures and the variety of their interactions with Europeans, Jennings refutes the legends characterizing the Indians as antagonistic warriors, and illuminates the complexity and significance of the realtionships that formed between the Indians and the settlers.
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