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The return of the native : American Indian political resurgence

Summary: An incisive look at American Indian and Euro-American relations from the seventeenth century to the present, this book focuses on how such relations--and Indian responses to them--have shaped contemporary Indian political fortunes. Cornell shows how, in the early days of colonization, Indians were able to maintain their nationhood by playing off the competing European powers; and how the American Revolution and westward expansion eventually caused Native Americans to lose their land, social cohesion, and economic independence. The final part of the book recounts the slow, steady reemergence of.

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  • ISBN: 0195065751
  • ISBN: 0195037723 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780195037722 (alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    viii, 278 pages ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

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General Note:
Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Bibliography: p. 267-270.
Formatted Contents Note: The new Indian politics -- Exceptional beginnings: the fur trade and Indian labor -- Solving "the Indian problem" -- "They carry their lives on their finger nails" -- The transformations of the tribe -- New music, new partners, a new dance -- Toward a supratribal consciousness -- The politics of Indianness -- Who wants what? -- Old wars, new weapons -- Lieutenant Anthony's legacy -- Indian-White relations revised -- "Another world is coming."
Subject: Indians of North America Government relations
Indians of North America Government relations 1934-
Indians of North America Race identity
United States

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Northwest Indian College.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library E 93 .C67 1988 0231067 Stacks Available -
Lummi Library E 93 .C67 1988 0231079 Stacks Available -

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