American Nations : Encounters in Indian Country, 1850 to the Present / Edited by Frederick E. Hoxie, Peter C. Mancall, and James H. Merrell.

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This volume brings together an impressive collection of important works covering nearly every aspect of early Native American history, from contact and exchange to diplomacy, religion, warfare, and disease.

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• introduction
• Chronology
• Part I Agency Amid Conquest, 1850-1900
• Chapter 1 "The Navajos at Bosque Redondo: Cooperation, Resistance, and Initiative, 1864-1868"
• Chapter 2 "Crazy Horse and the End of the Great Sioux War"
• Chapter 3 "I See What I Have Done: The Life and Murder Trial of Xwelas, A S'Klallam Woman"
• Part II Reservation Cultures, 1880-1930
• Chapter 4 "Signatures and Thumbprints: Ethnicity among the White Earth Anishinaabeg, 1889-1920"
• Chapter 5 "Naalyéhé Bá-Hooghan--House of Merchandise: The Navajo Trading Post as an Institution of Cultural Change, 1900-1930"
• Chapter 6 "The Birth of the Reservation: Making the Modern Individual Among the Lakota"
• Part III Gender and Culture Change
• Chapter 7 "'Right in the Midst of My Own People': Native American Women and the Field Matron Program,"
• Chapter 8 "'If We Get the Girls, We Get the Race': Missionary Education of Native American Girls"
• Chapter 9 "Making Savages of Us All: White Women, Pueblo Indians, and the Controversy Over Indian Dances in the 1920s"
• Part IV Religious Innovation and Survival
• Chapter 10 "Reservation Leadership and the Progressive-Traditional Dichotomy: William Wash and the Northern Utes, 1865-1928"
• Chapter 11 "Red Lilac of the Cayugas: Traditional Indian Law and Culture Conflict in a Witchcraft Trial in Buffalo, New York, 1930"
• Chapter 12 "Shamanism and Christianity: Modern Tlingit Elders Look at the Past"
• Part V Cultural and Political Transformations, 1900-1950
• Chapter 13 "Exploring a Cultural Borderland: Native American Journeys of Discovery in the Early Twentieth Century"
• Chapter 14 "The Tribal Reorganization of the Stockbridge-Munsee: Essential Conditions in the Re-Creation of a Native American Community, 1930-1942"
• Chapter 15 "Jim Crow in Alaska: The Passage of the Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945"
• Part VI Indian Activism and Cultural Resurgence
• Chapter 16 "American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Politics and the Resurgence of Identity"
• Chapter 17 "'We Don't Want Your Rations, We Want This Dance': The Changing Use of Song and Dance on the Southern Plains"
• Chapter 18 "The Bloody Wake of Alcatraz: Political Repression of the American Indian Movement During the 1970s"
• Chapter 19 "Riding the Paper Tiger"
• Part VII Perspectives on Native America, 2000
• Chapter 20 "Our Lives Have Been Transmuted, Changed Forever"
• Chapter 21 "Research, Redskins, and Reality"
• Chapter 22 "Gaming and Recent American Indian Economic Development"
• Chapter 23 "Native Americans in America: A Theoretical and Historical Overview"
• Further Reading
• Notes on Contributors
• Permissions
• Acknowledgements
• Index

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