The Complete Idiot's Guide to Native American HistoryThis book is a comprehensive overview of the history and culture of the peoples who are now known as the First Americans. Author Walter C. Fleming covers the many different tribes that stretched from the Atlantic to the Pacific, including compelling biographies of their greatest leaders. He examines the beliefs, customs, legends and the myriad contributions Native Americans have given to modern society, and details the often tragic history of their conquest by European invaders, their treatment-both historical and recent-under the U.S. government, and the harsh reality of life on today's reservations. |
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Contents
America BC Before Columbus | 1 |
Who and What Is an American Indian? | 3 |
An Indian by Any Other Name | 4 |
Tribes Bands or Clans | 6 |
Hatfields and the McCoys? | 8 |
We Were Here First Populating Turtle Island | 11 |
When? | 13 |
Reed Boats and Lost Tribes | 14 |
There Were No Winners | 145 |
More Gold and Blood | 147 |
John Bozemans War | 150 |
The Piegan War of 1870 | 155 |
Nothing Lasts Forever but the Rocks | 157 |
The Road to the Little Bighorn | 159 |
One Good American Cow and a Pair of Oxen | 160 |
A Train Ride Through Indian Country | 161 |
Welsh Rarebits | 15 |
The Most Ancient Ones | 19 |
Pass the Mammoth Please | 20 |
Ancient Civilizationsthe Old Southwest | 21 |
The Mound Builders | 23 |
Building on the Ruins of the Past | 26 |
Where and How They Lived | 27 |
The Arctic | 29 |
The World and Ways of the Aleuts | 31 |
Living With the Caribou | 32 |
Basket Weaving 101 | 33 |
A Tough Place to Make a Living | 35 |
California Here We Come | 36 |
Jumping for Joy | 37 |
The Plains | 40 |
Home of the Iroquois | 42 |
A Womans Place | 43 |
Honored Women | 44 |
There Goes the Neighborhood | 45 |
First Contacts The Spanish and the French | 47 |
The Invasion and Conquest of the Americas | 48 |
Send All the Slaves That Can Be Sold | 49 |
Taking the New World by Storm | 51 |
French Exploration of the New World | 55 |
Colonization and Conflict | 59 |
The British Are Coming The British Are Coming | 60 |
War in the Southwest | 66 |
Fighting for Our Lives | 67 |
Caught in the Power Struggle | 69 |
Pawns in an International Game | 70 |
Holding Their Own | 74 |
If You Cant Join Em Beat Em | 76 |
Impact of the Fur Trade | 78 |
You Take One Barrel of Missouri River Water | 82 |
Native Americans and the Upstart States United | 85 |
Treaty with the Delaware | 86 |
End of the Revolution | 88 |
The Treaty of New York | 91 |
Canons of Treaty Construction | 93 |
The Futures So Bright Ya Gotta Wear Shades | 94 |
Bossing Indians Around A History of the BIA | 95 |
Indian Peace Commissioners? An Oxymoron? | 99 |
Enter the Department of Inferior Er Interior | 100 |
Exploring the Interior | 103 |
Lewis and Clark Go on a Trip | 105 |
Home at Last | 114 |
From Sea to Shining Sea | 115 |
Expansion and Removal | 117 |
Tecumseh Fights for His Homeland | 118 |
The War of 1812 | 120 |
Seminole Wars | 121 |
Round Three? Surrender at a Price | 123 |
Indian Removal | 124 |
Domestic Dependent Nations Whatever That Means | 126 |
Reservations and Resistance | 131 |
The War Out West | 133 |
The Great American Desert | 134 |
Theres Gold in Them Thar Hills | 136 |
The Great TreatyMaking Period | 138 |
Reconstruction in Indian Territory | 141 |
The Army Prepares to Make War on the Sioux and Cheyenne | 165 |
The End of a Peoples Sacred Dream | 172 |
The Last Little Wars | 175 |
The Nez Perce Flight | 176 |
A Broken Heart | 180 |
Little Wolf Makes It Home | 183 |
The Apaches Last Stand | 188 |
Getting Civilized | 191 |
Come to Jesus My Savage Brother | 192 |
Killing the Indian to Save the Man | 194 |
Forcing Mr Indian Between the Plow Handles | 196 |
Splitting Heirs | 199 |
Freed from Savagery? Shackled Anew | 200 |
The Indian New Deal | 203 |
John Collier and a New Deal for Indians | 204 |
The New Bureau of Indian Affairs | 208 |
Back to the Bad Old Days | 209 |
Moving to the Concrete Prairies | 212 |
Urban Indians | 213 |
Modern Indians Modern Challenges | 215 |
Indians Take the Reins Tribal SelfDetermination | 217 |
Who Rules Whom | 220 |
Gov to Gov | 221 |
Tribalism in the TwentyFirst Century | 223 |
When Rights Collide Hunting Fishing and Gathering | 225 |
We Reserve the Right to Hunt and Fish | 226 |
Off the Rez | 227 |
The Rise of American Indian Activism | 229 |
Things Get Really Ugly | 231 |
Everyone Wins | 232 |
A Whale of a Controversy | 234 |
All or Nothing | 238 |
Indian Education Unto the Seventh Generation | 239 |
Preacher Teachers | 240 |
The Natives Go to Dartmouth | 241 |
Education on Their Own Terms | 242 |
Bilingual Education | 245 |
Native American Studies Programs | 247 |
A New Paradigm for Higher Education | 250 |
Bitter Medicine Indian Health and WellBeing | 253 |
The Place Where Gods Come and Go | 256 |
Lost and Found | 258 |
Put This in Your Black Bag | 260 |
Some Very Sick Indians | 261 |
What the Future Holds | 264 |
Gambling on the Future Tribal Economies | 267 |
Paper Millionaires | 269 |
The New Buffalo | 272 |
Reservations Are Islands Right? | 275 |
Protecting Traditional Beliefs and Practices | 277 |
A Revival of Traditional Beliefs | 278 |
The Peyote Way | 279 |
Put Those Bones Back | 281 |
American Indian Religion and the New Age | 283 |
Stand Up and Be Counted American Indian Population Facts | 287 |
Glossary | 293 |
Bibliography | 297 |
Index | 301 |
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