The American Indian: Past and Present

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Roger L. Nichols
University of Oklahoma Press, Oct 20, 2014 - History - 448 pages

Widely used in university courses on Native American history through five editions, The American Indian: Past and Present has been thoroughly revised to present an up-to-date view of Indian heritage. This timely anthology brings together pieces written over the last thirty years—most published in the past decade—that represent some of the best scholarship available.

The readings offer a broad overview of indigenous peoples of North America from first contact to the present, showing how Indians relied on their cultural strengths and determination to retain their independent identities. These essays trace the ever changing situations of Indians as both tribes and individuals. They bring readers through Native victory and military defeat, relocation, mandatory acculturation, and militant protests to the present era of self-determination, when the meaning of Native identity is sometimes hotly debated.

Editor Roger L. Nichols has selected the new readings and organized the collection to reflect a balance of time periods, geographic areas, and historical and political topics for the student’s first exposure to American Indian history. He also includes suggestions for further reading and study questions as aids to those interested in learning more about the subjects covered.

A fresh update to a valuable classic, The American Indian: Past and Present remains an accessible resource for undergraduates and a flexible and authoritative set of readings for the instructor.

 

Selected pages

Contents

Invasions and Colonialism
3
Spanish Missions Cultural Conflict
21
Indians Colonists and
32
Change and Continuity
51
Maps
58
The Catawba Experience
78
The Carolinas and Virginia ca 1700
83
A Reappraisal
96
MidColumbia Indian reservations
189
Oglala Lakotas
207
Toward the Mainstream
241
Alcohol and the Anishinaabeg of Minnesota in
265
The Blackfeet
279
Changing Lives and Federal Policies
305
Termination and the Eastern Band of Cherokees
327
The Indian Health Service and the Sterilization
340

Facing the United States
115
Causes of the Arikara
141
Plains Indian Women and Interracial Marriage
154
Plains Indian Treaty Councils
171
Reservations Resistance and Renewal
185
The Nixon
355
The Quest
371
Conclusion 345
395
Contributors
401
Copyright

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The American Indian: Past and Present
Roger L. Nichols
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About the author (2014)

Roger L. Nichols is Professor Emeritus of History and Affiliate Professor of Indian Studies at the University of Arizona. He is the author of American Indians in U.S. History and editor of The American Indian: Past and Present, Sixth Edition.

Bibliographic information

TitleThe American Indian: Past and Present
EditorRoger L. Nichols
Editionrevised
PublisherUniversity of Oklahoma Press, 2014
ISBN0806186143, 9780806186146
Length448 pages
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History / Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / Native American Studies
  
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