First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History

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Macmillan Higher Education, Sep 24, 2018 - History - 704 pages

Expertly authored by Colin G. Calloway, First Peoples has been praised for its inclusion of Native American sources and Calloway’s concerted effort to weave Native perspectives throughout the narrative. Emphasizing the importance of primary sources, each chapter includes a document project and picture essay organized around important themes in the chapter. This distinctive approach continues to make First Peoples the bestselling and most highly acclaimed text for the American Indian history survey.

 

Contents

American Indians in American History
American History before Columbus
Early American Cities Settlements and Centers
Encounters Epidemics
Exchanges 14921700s
Indians Confront the French
Indians Confront the English
Economic and Cultural Exchanges
War and Diplomacy in Colonial America 16751763
Revolutions East and West 17631800
Chapter Review
American Indians and the New Nation 18001840
Defending the West 18401890
Kill the Indian and Save the Man 1870s1920s
From the Great Crash to Wounded Knee 19291974
SelfDetermination and Sovereignty 19702017

Fur Trades and Slave Trades
Conclusion
Cooperation Contagion and Conflict
Copyright

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About the author (2018)

Colin G. Calloway is the John Kimball Jr. 1943 Professor of History and Professor of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. He served for two years as associate director of and editor at the D’Arcy McNickle Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library in Chicago and taught for seven years at the University of Wyoming. Professor Calloway has written many books on Native American history, including The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and The Transformation of North America (2006); One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark (2003); and two books for the Bedford Series in History and Culture: Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indians Views of How the West Was Lost (1996), and The World Turned Upside Down: Indian Voices from Early America (1994).

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