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Index
Title Introduction About This Book Conventions Used in This Book What You’re Not to Read Foolish Assumptions How This Book Is Organized Icons Used in This Book Where to Go from Here Part I : America Before It Was “America” Chapter 1: The Rich, Troubled Past of the American Indian The Price of Greatness In the Beginning . . . The Tribes of Then and Now Unexpected Visitors A Plethora of Persistent Personalities War Stories Dysfunction Junction Daily Life Home Is Where the Hearth Is Family First Language Lab Pray Tell Rituals Christian Indians The Indian Population Decline . . . and Hope for the Future Native American Identity Today A Bright Future Chapter 2: The Great Migrations How’d Everyone Get Here Anyway? The Three Immigration Waves The Stages of the Earliest Americans Chapter 3: The Development of the Ancient Cultures Clovis, Folsom, and Plano (11,500 b.c. ) Adena and Hopewell (1000 b.c. – a.d. 1000) Hohokom and Mogollon ( a.d. 200 – 1450) Chapter 4: Hardly a Vast Wasteland: America before 1492 Taking Advantage of Vast Resources Cultural Diversity That Was Hardly Primitive Debunking Pre-Columbian Stereotypes Chapter 5: Settling Down: Tribal Settlements after the Great Migrations The Major Culture Areas The Arctic and the Subarctic The Eastern Woodlands The Southeast The Plains The Southwest The Great Basin and Plateau The Pacific Northwest California Chapter 6: The Five Civilized Tribes What’s in a Name — a Tribal Name Choctaw: The First Code Talkers Cherokees and the Trail of Tears Chickasaw: They Were Called Warriors Creek Seminole: The Unconquered People Chapter 7: A Tally of Important Tribes Navajo: “The People” Lakotas, Nakotas, and Santee Chippewa: We are Anishinabe Pueblo: The First Apartment Buildings Apache: Uncertain Origins Iroquois: Call Us Haudenosaunee Alaska: The Tlingit Part II : Interacting with Others Chapter 8: “Columbus Sailed the Ocean Blue” Sifting through Fact and Fiction Columbus’s First Voyage (1492–1493) Wiping Out the Welcoming Arawaks Columbus’s Three Other Voyages The Impact of Christopher Columbus Chapter 9: The Spanish and French Stake Their Claims John Cabot: England’s First Steps in the New World Amerigo Vespucci: America’s Namesake Pónce de León: Conquering the Tainos Hernándo Cortés: Conquering the Aztecs Jacques Cartier: Discovering Canada and the Great Lakes Hernando De Soto: Creating Hostile Relations with Southeastern Natives Francisco Vasquez de Coronado: Exploring the Southwest Marquette, Jolliet, and La Salle: Charting the Mississippi Leaving the Native People Reeling Chapter 10: Native American Chiefs and Notable Women Men of the 16th and 17th Centuries Men of the 18th Century The 19th Century Notable Indian Women: Not Stay-At-Wigwam Ladies Chapter 11: Battle Cries and Peace Pipes Weapons of Choice War Parties Weren’t No Parties The Colonial Era from 1621–1775 The American Revolution (1775–1783) The Indian View of the American Revolution The Louisiana Purchase The War of 1812 Native Americans in the Civil War (1861–1865) The Indian Wars Native Americans in America’s 20th-Century Wars Chapter 12: Delving into the Details of U.S.-Indian Relations Tribal Sovereignty Treaties (1608–1830) Removal (1830–1850) Reservations (1850–1871) Assimilation (1871–1928) Reorganization (1928–1942) Termination (1943–1968) Self-Determination (1961–present) Major Recent Acts of Congress Concerning Indians Part III : Working for a Living Chapter 13: Mother Love A Mother Feeds Her Children Food on Four Legs Making Good Use of Rich and Fertile Land Seeking Seafood Skins: The Lucrative Fur Trade Chapter 14: Dressing for Purpose and Pride Native Garb Ceremonial Garb Native American Accessories Traditional Dress Today Chapter 15: Home, Native Home Wooden Homes Tipis Other Indian Dwellings The Earliest Apartment Buildings Native American Housing Today The Mohawk Steelworkers Chapter 16: Tools and Transportation Hunting and Trapping Carrying the Load Travel Plans Part IV : All in the (Native American) Family Chapter 17: Tribes, Clans, and Bands Coming to Terms in Indian Society Men Ruled the Roost? Hardly The Role of Women Children Chapter 18: Native Languages An Impossible Question? The Slow Extinction of Native Languages Sign Language Little Written Down? Language As (the White Man’s) Weapon Language As (the Native American) Weapon Chapter 19: The Faith of Their Fathers . . . And How Native Americans Worship Today In the Beginning . . . Native Peoples’ Creation Myths The Elements and the Deities Tools of the Spiritual Trade The Totem Pole Christian Indians? Not a Contradiction! Part V : In a Modern World Not of Their Making Chapter 20: The Slow Dwindling of Native Americans Too Much to Defend Against Defenseless Against Dastardly Diseases Fighting Starvation Extermination Today’s Challenges Chapter 21: What’s a Tribe, Who’s an Indian, and What’s the BIA Got to Do With It The Evolution of Indian Agencies What It Takes to Be a Tribe Chapter 22: Native Americans: Today and Tomorrow An Indian By Any Other Name . . . Repatriation: Resting in Peace Native American Stats Alcoholism and the Native American Mineral Wealth and Offshore Banking: Native American Economic Bright Spots The Top Ten Tribes Today How Native Americans Ended Up in the Casino Business Part VI : The Part of Tens Chapter 23: Ten Native American Museums and Cultural Centers The National Museum of the American Indian (Smithsonian Institution; Washington, D.C., New York, Maryland) The Indian Museum of North America (South Dakota) The Museum of Indian Culture (Pennsylvania) The Plains Indian Museum (Wyoming) The Indian Pueblo Cultural Center (New Mexico) The Anasazi Heritage Center (Colorado) The Museum of the Cherokee Indian (North Carolina) The Iroquois Indian Museum (New York) The Mid-America All-Indian Center (Kansas) The Wounded Knee Museum (South Dakota) Also Worth Noting . . . Chapter 24: Ten (Plus) Worthy Movies and Documentaries about Native Americans and Their History Little Big Man (1970) Powwow Highway (1989) Dances with Wolves (1990) The Last of the Mohicans (1992) Christmas in the Clouds (2001) Atanarjuat (2001) The Native Americans (Documentary, 1994) 500 Nations (Documentary, 1995) Lewis & Clark: The Journey of the Corps of Discovery (Documentary, 1997) Smoke Signals (1998) Skins (2002) Images of Indians: How Hollywood Stereotyped the Native American (Documentary, 2003) The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006)
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