[Dummies 01] • Native American History For Dummies by Lippert, Dorothy -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Contents 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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