Shapers of the great debate on Native Americans--land, spirit, and power : a biographical dictionary

Johansen, Bruce E. (Bruce Elliott) 1950- (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 0313309418 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780313309410 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xxi, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Who "owns" the wilderness? : Roger Williams and Metacom (King Philip) -- Balance of power and the birth of the United States : Hendrick, Canassatego, Benjamin Franklin, and Red Jacket -- Alliances to preserve land base : Little Turtle, Tecumseh, William Henry Harrison, and Black Hawk -- The Cherokees, exiles from their own land : Andrew Jackson, Sequoyah, John Ross, and John Marshall -- Refugees in their own land : Chief Joseph, Oliver O. Howard, Sitting Bull, George Armstrong Custer, Red Cloud, and Standing Bear (Ponca) -- Mother Earth or mother lode? : Chief Sea'thl, Black Elk, and Luther Standing Bear -- "Kill the Indian, save the man" : Helen Hunt Jackson, L. Frank Baum, Richard Henry Pratt, and other participants in the Anglo-American debate regarding Native Americans' future -- Land base and the reclamation of culture, 1934-2000 : Felix Cohen, Vine Deloria, Jr., Oren Lyons, and Slade Gorton.