Native America

Native America: A History, Second Edition offers a thoroughly revised and updated narrative history of American Indian peoples in what became the United States. The new edition includes expanded coverage of the period since the Second World War, including an updated discussion of the Red Power Movement, the legal status of native nations in the United States, and important developments that have transformed Indian Country over the past 75 years. Also new to this edition are sections focusing on the Pacific Northwest. Placing the experiences of native communities at the heart of the text, historian Michael Leroy Oberg focuses on twelve native communities whose histories encapsulate the principal themes and developments in Native American history and follows them from earliest times to the present. A single volume text ideal for college courses presenting the history of native peoples in the region that ultimately became the United States from ancient America to the present A work that illustrates the great diversity in the historical experience of native peoples and spotlights the importance of Native Americans in the history of North America A supplementary website (MichaelLeroyOberg.com) includes resources for teachers and students, including a resource guide, links to primary source documents, suggestions for additional readings, test and discussion questions, and an author s blog.

Native America: A History, Second Edition offers a thoroughly revised and updated narrative history of American Indian peoples in what became the United States. The new edition includes expanded coverage of the period since the Second World War, including an updated discussion of the Red Power Movement, the legal status of native nations in the United States, and important developments that have transformed Indian Country over the past 75 years. Also new to this edition are sections focusing on the Pacific Northwest. Placing the experiences of native communities at the heart of the text, historian Michael Leroy Oberg focuses on twelve native communities whose histories encapsulate the principal themes and developments in Native American history and follows them from earliest times to the present.* A single volume text ideal for college courses presenting the history of native peoples in the region that ultimately became the United States from ancient America to the present* A work that illustrates the great diversity in the historical experience of native peoples and spotlights the importance of Native Americans in the history of North America* A supplementary website (MichaelLeroyOberg.com) includes resources for teachers and students, including a resource guide, links to primary source documents, suggestions for additional readings, test and discussion questions, and an author's blog.

List of Figures ixList of Maps xiIntroduction 11 Myths and Legends 7The Beginning of the World 7Rules for Living 13Bears 212 Worlds New and Worlds Old 25The Fundamental Violence of Discovery 25Paths of Destruction 26Tsenacommacah 33The Mohegans 39New Worlds 443 Living in the New World 45Mourning Wars 45Colonizing the Mohegans 49The Word of God 51Colonizing the Powhatans 55Forging the Covenant Chain 58Native Peoples and the French in a World of War 59The Pueblos' Revolt 63Horses 67The Grand Settlement 70The Cherokees 72Native Peoples and the Nature of Empires 764 Native Peoples and the Fall of European Empires 79Penn's Woods 79The Potawatomis in a World of Conflicting Empires 80Settlement and Unsettledness 83Life at the Western Door 87Behind the Frontier 89The Great Wars for Empire 96The Proclamation and the Indian Boundary Line 105Indians and Empires 1075 Native Peoples and the Rise of a New American Empire 109Change in the Far Western World 109Declarations of Independence 120The Revolution and the Longhouse 123Cherokees and Chickamaugas 125England's Allies and the Confederation 128The Six Nations and the Empire State 130Confederations 132A New Order for the Ages 1331794, A Year of Consequence 137The White Man's Republic 1396 Relocations and Removes 141The Mohegans' Struggle for Independence 141The Rise of the Prophet 146Handsome Lake 151Dispossessing the Senecas 155Pioneers and Exiles 159Removing from the Missions 169The Optimism of the Imperialist 1707 The Invasion of the Great West 171Pledges and Promises 171Settling In and Settling Down 179Homesteaders 182Concentration 186The Indians' Civil War 195Peace and War 1978 The Age of Dispossession 211"Conform To It or Be Crushed By It" 211Spelatch 212Ghost Dancers 215The Assault on Indian Identity 217Living Under the New Regime 221The New Life in the Indian Territory 225The Crows and the Life on the Northern Plains 234Native Peoples in the Eastern United States 238A Movement for Reform 242The Origins of the Indian New Deal 2459 New Deals and Old Deals 249Reforming Indian Policy 249Native Peoples and World War II 255Termination and the Coalminer's Canary 259Cleaning the Slate 266New Frontiers 270Red Power 27210 Sovereign Nations and Colonized Nations 281The Importance of 1978 282The State of the Nations 285Exercising Sovereignty 292Toward the Future 300Bibliography 303Index 345