Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian and White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-1992

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In a series of powerful and moving documents, anthropologist Peter Nabokov presents a history of Native American and white relations as seen through Indian eyes and told through Indian voices: a record spanning more than five hundred years of interchange between the two peoples. Drawing from a wide range of sources - traditional narratives, Indian autobiographies, government transcripts, firsthand interviews, and more - Nabokov has assembled a remarkably rich and vivid collection, representing nothing less than ...
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Overview

In a series of powerful and moving documents, anthropologist Peter Nabokov presents a history of Native American and white relations as seen through Indian eyes and told through Indian voices: a record spanning more than five hundred years of interchange between the two peoples. Drawing from a wide range of sources - traditional narratives, Indian autobiographies, government transcripts, firsthand interviews, and more - Nabokov has assembled a remarkably rich and vivid collection, representing nothing less than an alternative history of North America.. "Beginning with the Indian's first encounters with the earliest explorers, traders, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers and continuing to the present, Native American Testimony presents an authentic, challenging picture of an important, tragic, and frequently misunderstood aspect of American history.
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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly
Anthropologist Nabokov ( Two Leggings ) here reorganizes his impressive 1978 book of the same title and expands it with additional material on relations between Native Americans and whites to cover the reservation period of the mid-1800s to the present. This unique history is told in the voices of the vanquished Indians as they contemplate the whites' invasion of the continent and observe threats to their survival and that of their culture. Using government documents, recorded speeches, newspaper interviews and autobiographies, Nabokov revivifies the words of Sitting Bull, Ely Parker, Tecumseh and others as they speak on such themes as first encounters with Christianity, education in government schools and defiance of the status quo in the 1960s and '70s. Coupled with Nabokov's lucid lead-ins, the testimony recorded here offers a compelling alternative view of U.S. history. Photos not seen by PW. (Dec.)
Library Journal
From the author of the classic Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior ( LJ 6/15/67), this collection of documents, drawn from North American Indian oral culture and from government transcripts, reservation newspapers, and autobiographies, spans 500 years of interchange between Indians and whites. Based on sound ethnology, with eloquent and informed chapter introductions, it consists of two parts. The first nine chapters were originally published as Native American Testimony: An Anthology of Indian- White Relations; First Encounters to Dispossession (Crowell, 1978). This part begins with prophecies of white people's arrival and chronicles responses to explorers, traders, missionaries, settlers, and government presence. The earlier anthology has been expanded by the addition of a longer second part, ``Reservation to Resurgence,'' in which materials up to the present are included. Here land allotment (the Dawes Act), old ways versus white ways, the Native American Church, patriotism, and ``New Indian Wars'' are observed. Frequent hopeless ness is described: in the words of a Crow elder, ``Our hearts were on the ground.'' In the tradition of Charles Hamilton's Cry of the Thunderbird (1950), this book com plements Wilcomb E. Washburn's huge The American Indian and the United States ( LJ 4/15/74, o.p.); for the effectiveness of many oral transcriptions it may be compared with Virginia Irving Arm strong's I Have Spoken ( LJ 9/15/71). Native American Testimony is highly recommended.-- Margaret W. Norton, Fenwick High Sch., Oak Park, Ill.
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YA-- A collection of primary-source material, grouped by key issues that arose during 500 years of Indian and white encounters in North America. Nabokov uses traditional narratives, old government transcripts, reservation newspapers, and firsthand interviews to highlight this chronological volume. Photographs appear throughout, making Indian history come alive. An extensive source section and index complete this volume.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780670837045
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 12/28/1991
  • Pages: 496
  • Product dimensions: 20.00 (w) x 20.00 (h) x 20.00 (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction
Pt. 1 First Encounter to Dispossession 1
Ch. 1 Premonitions and Prophecies 3
1 He Will Use Any Means to Get What He Wants 6
2 White Rabbit Got Lotsa Everything 7
3 Visitors from Heaven 10
4 Thunder's Dream Comes True 12
5 Easy Life of the Gray-Eyed 14
6 The Spider's Web 15
Ch. 2 Face to Face 18
1 Their Wondrous Works and Ways 21
2 Before They Got Thick 24
3 Silmoodawa Gives a Complete Performance 25
4 A Different Kind of Man 26
5 I Hid Myself and Watched 29
Ch. 3 Exchange Between Worlds 32
1 Thunder, Dizzying Liquid, and Cups That Do Not Grow 36
2 Keep Your Presents 38
3 Give Us Good Goods 40
4 You Rot the Guts of Our Young Men 41
5 Some Strange Animal 42
6 Buttocks Bags and Green Coffee Bread 45
7 The Bewitched Pale Man 47
Ch. 4 Bearers of the Cross 49
1 Burn the Temples, Break Up the Bells 54
2 A Good Indian's Dilemma 57
3 We Never Quarrel About Religion 57
4 Janitin Is Named Jesus 58
5 The Freedom to Work 60
6 A Shaman Obeys 63
7 Always Give Blessings and Be Thankful 64
Ch. 5 Living Beside Each Other 68
1 Remove the Cause of Our Uneasiness 72
2 Mary Jemison Becomes an Iroquois 73
3 Our Very Good Friend Kirk 78
4 The Frenchman Dreams Himself Home 80
5 Incident at Boyer Creek 82
6 Our Stock of Food and Clothes 85
7 If I Could See This Thing 87
Ch. 6 The Long Resistance 90
1 We Must Be United 95
2 Black Hawk Stands Alone 98
3 Blood Scattered Like Water 101
4 Young Men, Go Out and Fight Them 106
5 Geronimo Puts Down the Gun 112
Ch. 7 The Treaty Trail 117
1 Let Us Examine the Facts 121
2 Osceola Determined 124
3 My Son, Stop Your Ears 129
4 We Are Not Children 133
5 Plenty Coups Travels to Washington 140
Ch. 8 Exiles in their Own Land 145
1 Plea from the Chickasaw 151
2 Tushpa Crosses the Mississippi 152
3 Corralling the Navajo 157
4 The Uprooted Winnebago 161
5 Standing Bear's Odyssey 164
Ch. 9 The Nation's Hoop is Broken and Scattered 170
1 The Buffalo Go 174
2 Take Care of Me 176
3 I Am Alone 176
4 I Have Spoken 178
5 I Want to Look for My Children 180
6 No Dawn to the East 181
7 Gone Forever 182
8 This Awful Loneliness 184
9 A Wish 184
Pt. 2 Reservation to Resurgence 185
Ch. 10 The Very Small Islands 187
1 Treated Better by Wolves 193
2 We Lost Everything 196
3 The Way Agents Get Rich 198
4 The Career of Ely Parker 202
5 Annie Makes Her Choice 204
6 We Had Everything to Learn 207
Ch. 11 To Learn Another Way 213
1 Responsive and Resistant Students 218
2 He Is Not One of Us 221
3 What Harm Is in Our Sun-dance? 224
4 We Will Dance 225
5 Dr. Fewkes Plays Like a Child 227
6 Judge Wooden Leg Keeps One Wife 229
Ch. 12 The Flood has Come 232
1 A House of Our Own 238
2 Luther's Father Stands Alone 240
3 Half White and Half Indian 244
4 We Want to Tell You Something 246
5 He-na Tom, the Hoodwinker 251
6 The Dead Did Not Return 253
Ch. 13 Hearts on the Ground 256
1 Life on the Checkerboard 262
2 Big Man's Rules and Laws 263
3 The Outrage of Allotment 265
4 Farming and Futility 267
5 The Hopi Push of War 271
Ch. 14 A Twentieth-Century Indian Voice 275
1 The Best and the Brightest 282
2 Laughing at Themselves 289
3 From Wassaja to Montezuma 291
4 Suddenly a Gate 295
5 Following the Medicine 296
6 Scandal in Oklahoma 300
Ch. 15 Interlude of Hope 304
1 Hard Times in Sioux Country 311
2 Neglect Along the Klamath 313
3 The Twenties at San Juan 316
4 Commissioner Collier Is on Our Side 320
5 Resisting the Indian New Deal 324
6 Debate Over IRA 327
7 Reducing Navajo Sheep 330
Ch. 16 In and Out of the Mainstream 332
1 Counting Coup in World War Two 338
2 A Code Talker Comes Home 341
3 The Menominees Are Terminated 344
4 On Relocation 348
5 Stopping Erosion 354
Ch. 17 Let's Raise Some Hell 355
1 The New Indian Wars 362
2 Invading Alcatraz 367
3 Discovery: The Beeah Tribe 371
4 Birth of AIM 372
5 Confrontation or Negotiation 376
Ch. 18 So Long as this Land Exists 381
1 Going Back 388
2 Hopis and the Love Generation 390
3 Eskimos and "The Act" 393
4 Dark Sky Over Black Mesa 397
5 Indian Children in Crisis 401
Ch. 19 It's Hard to be Indian 404
1 What Am I 411
2 Alone and Very Scared 413
3 Notes from Indian Country 418
4 Before and After Gambling 420
5 Sovereignty Revitalized 422
6 Restoring Life to the Dead 425
7 First and Last Eskimos 429
8 Resistance at Oka 433
9 Confronting Columbus Again 437
Ch. 20 Towards a Native Millennium 441
1 Thorns in the Side 448
2 History Repeating Itself 450
3 Old Names in Charge 452
4 Different Programs 456
5 Reuniting with Beauty 460
6 Speedboat or Canoe? 462
7 An Eagle Nation 465
8 The End of the World 469
Notes on Sources 473
Illustration Credits 493
Index 495
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