The American Indian And The Problem Of History

Author : Calvin Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 019503855X

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The American Indian and the Problem of History by Calvin Martin Pdf

North American Indians have traditionally held conceptions of history, time and the universe that are vastly different from those of European civilizations. How, then, can Western historians begin to write accurately and without bias about societies who shunned "history" and who performed in our Western vision and errand of history only through coercion? Here, eighteen prominent authors wrestle with the phenomenon that in writing about Indian-white relations they are perforce trying to mesh two fundamentally different world-views. In pieces written expressly for this volume, the contributors--who include a cross-section of historians, anthropologists, professional writers, and native Americans--cover such diverse topics as cultural pluralism and ethnocentrism, native American dancing and ritual, the experiences of native American women, and attitudes toward the environment. In considering the deep and chronic issues of Indian-white relations, these controversial essays look anew at Indian cultural ideals and restore them to their proper place in American history.

Author : Albert L. Hurtado,Peter Iverson
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110431652

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Major Problems in American Indian History by Albert L. Hurtado,Peter Iverson Pdf

Each chapter includes documents and essays relating to the chapter's central theme, many of which are written by Native Americans.

Author : Susan Sleeper-Smith,Juliana Barr,Jean M. O'Brien,Nancy Shoemaker,Scott Manning Stevens
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469621210

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Why You Can't Teach United States History without American Indians by Susan Sleeper-Smith,Juliana Barr,Jean M. O'Brien,Nancy Shoemaker,Scott Manning Stevens Pdf

A resource for all who teach and study history, this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of American history. The nineteen essays gathered in this collaboratively produced volume, written by leading scholars in the field of Native American history, reflect the newest directions of the field and are organized to follow the chronological arc of the standard American history survey. Contributors reassess major events, themes, groups of historical actors, and approaches--social, cultural, military, and political--consistently demonstrating how Native American people, and questions of Native American sovereignty, have animated all the ways we consider the nation's past. The uniqueness of Indigenous history, as interwoven more fully in the American story, will challenge students to think in new ways about larger themes in U.S. history, such as settlement and colonization, economic and political power, citizenship and movements for equality, and the fundamental question of what it means to be an American. Contributors are Chris Andersen, Juliana Barr, David R. M. Beck, Jacob Betz, Paul T. Conrad, Mikal Brotnov Eckstrom, Margaret D. Jacobs, Adam Jortner, Rosalyn R. LaPier, John J. Laukaitis, K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Robert J. Miller, Mindy J. Morgan, Andrew Needham, Jean M. O'Brien, Jeffrey Ostler, Sarah M. S. Pearsall, James D. Rice, Phillip H. Round, Susan Sleeper-Smith, and Scott Manning Stevens.

Author : Angie Debo
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806179551

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A History of the Indians of the United States by Angie Debo Pdf

In 1906 when the Creek Indian Chitto Harjo was protesting the United States government's liquidation of his tribe's lands, he began his argument with an account of Indian history from the time of Columbus, "for, of course, a thing has to have a root before it can grow." Yet even today most intelligent non-Indian Americans have little knowledge of Indian history and affairs those lessons have not taken root. This book is an in-depth historical survey of the Indians of the United States, including the Eskimos and Aleuts of Alaska, which isolates and analyzes the problems which have beset these people since their first contacts with Europeans. Only in the light of this knowledge, the author points out, can an intelligent Indian policy be formulated. In the book are described the first meetings of Indians with explorers, the dispossession of the Indians by colonial expansion, their involvement in imperial rivalries, their beginning relations with the new American republic, and the ensuing century of war and encroachment. The most recent aspects of government Indian policy are also detailed the good and bad administrative practices and measures to which the Indians have been subjected and their present situation. Miss Debo's style is objective, and throughout the book the distinct social environment of the Indians is emphasized—an environment that is foreign to the experience of most white men. Through ignorance of that culture and life style the results of non-Indian policy toward Indians have been centuries of blundering and tragedy. In response to Indian history, an enlightened policy must be formulated: protection of Indian land, vocational and educational training, voluntary relocation, encouragement of tribal organization, recognition of Indians' social groupings, and reliance on Indians' abilities to direct their own lives. The result of this new policy would be a chance for Indians to live now, whether on their own land or as adjusted members of white society. Indian history is usually highly specialized and is never recorded in books of general history. This book unifies the many specialized volumes which have been written about their history and culture. It has been written not only for persons who work with Indians or for students of Indian culture, but for all Americans of good will.

Author : Dee Brown
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781453274149

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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown Pdf

The “fascinating” #1 New York Times bestseller that awakened the world to the destruction of American Indians in the nineteenth-century West (The Wall Street Journal). First published in 1970, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee generated shockwaves with its frank and heartbreaking depiction of the systematic annihilation of American Indian tribes across the western frontier. In this nonfiction account, Dee Brown focuses on the betrayals, battles, and massacres suffered by American Indians between 1860 and 1890. He tells of the many tribes and their renowned chiefs—from Geronimo to Red Cloud, Sitting Bull to Crazy Horse—who struggled to combat the destruction of their people and culture. Forcefully written and meticulously researched, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee inspired a generation to take a second look at how the West was won. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Dee Brown including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Author : David Treuer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780698160811

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The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee by David Treuer Pdf

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Named a best book of 2019 by The New York Times, TIME, The Washington Post, NPR, Hudson Booksellers, The New York Public Library, The Dallas Morning News, and Library Journal. "Chapter after chapter, it's like one shattered myth after another." - NPR "An informed, moving and kaleidoscopic portrait... Treuer's powerful book suggests the need for soul-searching about the meanings of American history and the stories we tell ourselves about this nation's past.." - New York Times Book Review, front page A sweeping history—and counter-narrative—of Native American life from the Wounded Knee massacre to the present. The received idea of Native American history—as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee—has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching Native life past and present for his nonfiction and novels, David Treuer has uncovered a different narrative. Because they did not disappear—and not despite but rather because of their intense struggles to preserve their language, their traditions, their families, and their very existence—the story of American Indians since the end of the nineteenth century to the present is one of unprecedented resourcefulness and reinvention. In The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee, Treuer melds history with reportage and memoir. Tracing the tribes' distinctive cultures from first contact, he explores how the depredations of each era spawned new modes of survival. The devastating seizures of land gave rise to increasingly sophisticated legal and political maneuvering that put the lie to the myth that Indians don't know or care about property. The forced assimilation of their children at government-run boarding schools incubated a unifying Native identity. Conscription in the US military and the pull of urban life brought Indians into the mainstream and modern times, even as it steered the emerging shape of self-rule and spawned a new generation of resistance. The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee is the essential, intimate story of a resilient people in a transformative era.

Author : Albert Hurtado,Peter Iverson,Willy Bauer,Stephen Amerman
Publisher : Cengage Learning
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1133944191

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Major Problems in American Indian History by Albert Hurtado,Peter Iverson,Willy Bauer,Stephen Amerman Pdf

This text presents a carefully selected group of readings, on topics such as European encounters and contemporary Native American activism that allow students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

Author : Terry P. Wilson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009087334

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Teaching American Indian History by Terry P. Wilson Pdf

Author : Donald Lee Fixico
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Ethnohistory
ISBN : UOM:39015040611223

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Rethinking American Indian History by Donald Lee Fixico Pdf

Writing from the Indian point of view is a central concern to historians today. Not only are new sources needed to understand native peoples, but new questions must be asked questions based in a deep knowledge of the languages and cultures of Native Americans. The seven essays in this volume present innovative approaches to revising Indian history and understanding native peoples on their own terms.

Author : Philip J. Deloria,Neal Salisbury
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-03-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1405121319

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A Companion to American Indian History by Philip J. Deloria,Neal Salisbury Pdf

A Companion to American Indian History captures the thematic breadth of Native American history over the last forty years. Twenty-five original essays by leading scholars in the field, both American Indian and non-American Indian, bring an exciting modern perspective to Native American histories that were at one time related exclusively by Euro-American settlers. Contains 25 original essays by leading experts in Native American history. Covers the breadth of American Indian history, including contacts with settlers, religion, family, economy, law, education, gender issues, and culture. Surveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic. Summarizes current debates and anticipates future concerns.

Author : Russell Thornton
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 080612220X

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American Indian Holocaust and Survival by Russell Thornton Pdf

Demographic overview of North American history describing in detail the holocaust that occurred to the Indians.

Author : James Adair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1775
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : ONB:+Z170736208

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The History of the American Indians by James Adair Pdf

Author : Roger L. Nichols
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0806135786

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American Indians in U.S. History by Roger L. Nichols Pdf

Originally published in hardcover in 2003.

Author : Robert F. Berkhofer
Publisher : Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015003696633

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The American Indian by Robert F. Berkhofer Pdf

Author : James Adair
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780817313937

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The History of the American Indians by James Adair Pdf

James Adair was an Englishman who lived and traded among the southeastern Indians for more than 30 years, from 1735 to 1768. Adair's written work, first published in England in 1775, is considered one of the finest histories of the Native Americans.