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Index
Cover Page
Say We Are Nations
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Map and Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Contesting Citizenship, 1887–1924
1: “My Own Nation” (1899)
2: “Keep Our Treaties” (1906)
3: “We Can Establish Our Rights” (1913)
4: “That the Smaller Peoples May Be Safe” (1918)
5: “Another Kaiser in America” (1918)
6: “Our Hearts Are Almost Broken” (1919)
7: “I Want to Be Free” (1920)
8: “I Am Going to Geneva” (1923)
9: “It Is Our Way of Life” (1924)
Part II: Reclaiming a Future, 1934–1954
10: “As One Indian to Another” (1934)
11: “Fooled So Many Times” (1934)
12: “Let Us Try a New Deal” (1934)
13: “If We Have the Land, We Have Everything” (1934)
14: “We Have Heard Your Talk” (1934)
15: “Eliminate This Discrimination” (1941)
16: “I Am Here to Keep the Land” (1945)
17: “We Are Still a Sovereign Nation” (1949)
18: “I Had No One to Help Me” (1953)
19: “We Need a Boldness of Thinking” (1954)
Part III: Demanding Civil Rights of a Different Order, 1954–1968
20: “We Are Citizens” (1954)
21: “This Resolution ‘Gives’ Indians Nothing” (1954)
22: “We Are Lumbee Indians” (1955)
23: “The Mississippi Choctaws Are Not Going Anywhere” (1960)
24: “A Human Right in a Free World” (1961)
25: “This Is Not Special Pleading” (1961)
26: “I Can Recognize a Beginning” (1962)
27: “To Survive as a People” (1964)
28: “We Were Here as Independent Nations” (1965)
29: “Is It Not Right to Help Them Win Their Rights?” (1965)
30: “We Will Resist” (1965)
31: “I Want to Talk to You a Little Bit about Racism” (1968)
32: “A Sickness Which Has Grown to Epidemic Proportions” (1968)
Part IV: Declaring Continuing Independence, 1969–1994
33: “Our Children Will Know Freedom and Justice” (1969)
34: “We Are an Honorable People—Can You Say the Same?” (1973)
35: “We Have the Power” (1974)
36: “For the Continuing Independence of Native Nations” (1974)
37: “For Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms” (1977)
38: “Why Have You Not Recognized Us as Sovereign People Before?” (1977)
39: “Our Red Nation” (1978)
40: “These Are Inherent Rights” (1978)
41: “Get the Record Straight” (1987)
42: “This Way of Life—The Peyote Way” (1992)
43: “Let Catawba Continue to Be Who They Are” (1992)
44: “Return the Power of Governing” (1994)
Part V: Testing the Limits, 1994–2015
45: “We Already Know Our History” (1996)
46: “We Would Like to Have Answers” (2003)
47: “The Sovereign Expression of Native Self-Determination” (2003)
48: “I Will Not Rest Till Justice Is Achieved” (2005)
49: “An Organization, a Club, or Is It a Nation?” (2007)
50: “The Gwich’in Are Caribou People” (2011)
51: “I Want to Work for Economic and Social Justice” (2012)
52: “I Could Not Allow Another Day of Silence to Continue” (2012)
53: “Indian Enough” (2013)
54: “We Will Be There to Meet You” (2013)
55: “Call Me Human” (2015)
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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