Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000Peter Nabokov From the author of How the World Moves--the classic collection of more than 500 years of Native American History In a series of powerful and moving documents, anthropologist Peter Nabokov presents a history of Native American and white relations as seen though Indian eyes and told through Indian voices. Beginning with the Indians' first encounters with European explorers, traders, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers to the challenges confronting Native American culture today, Native American Testimony spans five hundred years of interchange between the two peoples. Drawing from a wide range of sources--traditional narratives, Indian autobiographies, government transcripts, firsthand interviews, and more--Nabokov has assembled a remarkably rich and vivid collection, representing nothing less than an alternate history of North America. |
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Page 149
... Choctaw were the first to make the hard journey . Leaving their Mississippi farms in the winter of 1831 , several groups began the long trek westward under guard only to meet a blizzard of snow and below - zero weather ; many of the Choctaw ...
... Choctaw were the first to make the hard journey . Leaving their Mississippi farms in the winter of 1831 , several groups began the long trek westward under guard only to meet a blizzard of snow and below - zero weather ; many of the Choctaw ...
Page 151
... Choctaw still tell a story that poignantly sums up the profound sense of loss felt by the many Native Americans who were forced to leave their homelands . As one Choctaw community was about to move from its an- cestral Mississippi ...
... Choctaw still tell a story that poignantly sums up the profound sense of loss felt by the many Native Americans who were forced to leave their homelands . As one Choctaw community was about to move from its an- cestral Mississippi ...
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... Choctaw to sell their Mississippi homeland . By 1830 the tribe had given up more than thirteen million acres . Nonetheless , pressure to yield their remaining ten million acres continued . Finally , when the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit ...
... Choctaw to sell their Mississippi homeland . By 1830 the tribe had given up more than thirteen million acres . Nonetheless , pressure to yield their remaining ten million acres continued . Finally , when the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit ...
Contents
PREMONITIONS AND PROPHECIES | 3 |
Visitors from Heaven | 10 |
CHAPTER 2 FACE TO FACE | 18 |
Copyright | |
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