American Indians / Edition 1

by Nancy Shoemaker

Overview

This collection brings together the best recent essays covering over five hundred years of American Indian history. Attached to each essay are primary historical documents that deal with issues of survival, resistance, accommodation, and adaptation, all of which illuminate the complexity and diversity of American Indian experiences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780631219958
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	10/19/2000
Series:	Wiley Blackwell Readers in American Social and Cultural History
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.85(d)

About the Author

Nancy Shoemaker is Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century (1999), and editor of Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women (1995). She has also published articles on American Indian history in The American Historical Review, The Western Historical Quarterly, and The Journal of Women's History.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface viii

Introduction 1

Part I: Ancient America 11

Introduction 11

Article: The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans Neal Salisbury 12
Documents 30  

Nanih Waiya, The Sacred Mound of the Choctaws 30
H. S. Halbert

Legend of Nanih Wayah 39
Muriel Hazel Wright

Further Reading 45

Part II: First Encounters 46

Introduction 46

Article: The Anglo-Algonquian Gender Frontier 48
Kathleen M. Brown

Documents 63

Castañeda's History of the Expedition 64
Pedro de Castañeda of Náxera

Voyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618 71
Samuel de Champlain

Further Reading 77

Part III: International Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange 78

Introduction 78

Article: Dressing for Success on the Mohawk Frontier: Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian Fashion: Timothy J. Shannon 79

Documents 103

Excerpts from the Treaty of Lancaster, 1744 104

Witham Marshe's Journal of the Treaty Held with the Six Nations by the Commissioners of Maryland, and Other Provinces, at Lancaster 114

Further Reading 127

Part IV: Cherokee Removal 128

Introduction 128

Article: Evidence of Surplus Production in the Cherokee Nation Prior to Removal David M. Wishart 130

Documents 148

Excerpts from Census Roll, 1835, of the Cherokee Indians East of the Mississippi 150

Three excerpts from The Cherokee Phoenix 152

Further Reading 160

Part V: Sacred Places 162

Introduction 162

Article: The Sacred Black Hills: An Ethnohistorical Review 164
Linea Sundstrom

Documents 191

Land of the Spotted Eagle: Luther Standing Bear 191

The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt: Raymond J. DeMallie 200

Further Reading 207

Part VI: Boarding Schools 208

Introduction 208

Article: "Hm! White Boy! You Got No Business Here!" 209
K. Tsianina Lomawaima.

Documents 235

Supplemental Report on Indian Education 235
Thomas J. Morgan

Education of the American Indian: Henry Roe Cloud 240

Further Reading 245

Part VII: Red Power 247

Introduction 247

Article: Remembering Alcatraz: Twenty-five Years After: Troy Johnson and Joane Nagel 248

Documents 259

Alcatraz, Activism, and Accommodation 260
Vine Deloria, Jr

Mankiller: A Chief and Her People 267
Wilma Mankiller and Michael Wallis

Further Reading 278

Index 279

 

Editorial Reviews

"Pairing well-chosen primary sources with the best in contemporary scholarship, Nancy Shoemaker has devised an extraordinary book. Using treaty speeches, government documents, memoirs, and oral history, she matches Native voices with those of colonizers, bureaucrats, and historians. Lively and accessible introductions frame questions of method, evidence, historiography and analysis, making American Indians a compelling classroom book." Philip Deloria, University of Colorado.

From the Publisher

Shoemaker (history, U. of Connecticut) has gathered seven scholarly articles on Native American history from the mid-1990s, arranged them in historical order (from ancient America, to the 19th century removal of the Cherokees along the Trail of Tears, the Indian takeover of Alcatraz), and briefly introduced and then supplemented each one with relevant historical documents. The general introduction discusses Indian historiography from its white, anthropological beginnings with Lewis Henry Morgan and Franz Boas wanting to document a static and dying culture, to "The New Indian History" which began in the 1970s<-->an approach viewing Indian culture as dynamic and still vital and Indian history as more complex than previously thought. The volume's strength is that it is not just a relentless historical parade of facts/events, but instead pauses to consider this history, contextualize and turn it over from multiple viewpoints, both Native American and white. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews