Term paper resource guide to American Indian history

LeBeau, Patrick Russell 1958- (Author).

Summary: Presents one hundred term paper topics regarding American Indian history, from their relationships with early explorers to American legal disputes and battles, and modern civil rights activities.

Record details

ISBN: 9780313352713
ISBN: 0313352712
Physical Description: print
xiv, 376 pages ; 25 cm
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Smallpox epidemics (1530s-1880s) -- Early explorers and early conquest (1535-1540) -- First European settlements and Indian revolt (1565-1598) -- First significant English and French settlements (1607-1620) -- Pocahontas helps the English settlers (1607) -- Massasoit, pilgrims, and the first peace treaty (1621) -- Powhatan war in Virginia (1622-1644) -- Pequot war (1637) -- Iroquois wars (1638-1650) -- King Philip's war (1675-1676) -- Pueblo revolt (1680) -- Abenaki wars in Maine (1675-1748) -- Carolina Indian wars (1711-1716) -- Natchez massacre (1729) -- Albany Congress and Albany Plan of Union (1754) -- French and Indian war (1754-1763) -- Royal proclamation and line of 1763 -- Pontiac's war (1763-1766) -- Treaty of Fort Stanwix (1768) -- Quebec Act (1774) -- Lord Dunmore's war with the Shawnee (1774) -- Boston Tea Party, Mohawks, and Tammany (1773) -- General John Sullivan's destruction of the Iroquois (1779) -- Treaty of Greenville (1786-1795) -- Indians and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 -- American Indians and the U.S. Constitution (1787) -- Treaty of New York (1790) -- Indian Trade and Intercourse Act(s) (1790-1834) -- Treaty of Canandaigua (1794-1795) -- Louisiana purchase (1803-1830) -- Tenskwatawa and the Battle of Tippecanoe (1811) -- Death of Tecumseh and the battle of Thames (October 5, 1813) -- Creek war (1813-1814) -- Sequoyah's syllabary (1821) -- Johnson v. M'Intosh (1823) -- Bureau of Indian Affairs created (1824) -- Cherokee Phoenix in print (1828-1834) -- Indian Removal Act (1830) -- Cherokee Nation v. Georgia (1831) -- Worcester v. Georgia (1832) -- Black Hawk War (1832) -- Cherokee Trail of Tears (1838-1839) -- Seminole Wars of 1817-1858 -- Stand Watie, Cherokee, fights for the Confederacy in the Civil War (1861-1865) -- Dakota Sioux Uprising (1862) -- Long walk of the Navajo (1863-1868) -- Ely S. Parker's U.S. military career and role as commissioner of Indian affairs (1863-1871) -- Sand Creek and the Cheyenne Arapaho War (1864-1865) -- Treaties of Medicine Lodge and Fort Laramie (1866-1869) -- Indian Appropriation Act of 1871 and president Ulysses S. Grant's "Quaker" peace policy -- Wars in the Pacific northwest (1864-1878) -- Red River and Apache wars (1874-1886) -- Lakota war for the Black Hills (1876-1877) -- Nez Perce war (1877) -- Women's National Indian Association is founded (1879) -- Richard Pratt and the founding of the Carlisle Indian school (1879-1904) -- Courts of Indian Offenses (1883) and Indian Major Crimes Act (1885) -- General Allotment Act (Dawes Act) (1887) -- Wovoka and the Ghost Dance movement (1889) -- Wounded Knee (1890) -- Indians and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show (1893) -- Curtis Act (1898) -- Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903) -- Burke Act (1906) -- Winters doctrine: Winters v. United States, 207 U.S. 564 (1908) -- Society of American Indians founded (1911) -- Jim Thorpe and the 1912 Olympics -- World War I and Indian involvement (1917-1918) -- Native American Church is incorporated (1918) -- Indian Citizenship Act (1924) -- Indian Defense League of America (1926) and the Jay Treaty (1794) -- Meriam Report (1928) -- Indian Reorganization Act (1934) -- Indian Arts and Crafts Board created (1935) -- World II (1941-1945) -- National Congress of American Indians founded (1944) -- Indian Claims Commission is established (1946) -- Indian Urban Relocation Program (1948) -- Termination Policy (1953) -- Public Law 280 (1953) -- Indian Health Services Mandate (1955) -- American Indian Chicago Conference (AICC) (1961) -- National Indian Youth Council (NIYC) founded (1961) -- American Indian Movement founded (1968) -- Indian Civil Rights Act (1968) -- Occupation of Alcatraz Island (1969) -- State of Michigan v. William Jondreau (1971) -- Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971) -- Trail of broken treaties (1972) -- Wounded Knee (1973) -- United States v. Washington State (Boldt decision) (1974) -- Leonard Peltier and RESMURS (1975) -- Indian Self-Determination Act (1975) -- Murder of Annie Mae Pictou Aquash (1976) -- American Indian Religious Freedom Act (AIRFA) (1978) -- Indian Child Welfare Act (1978) -- United States v. Michigan (Fox decision) (1979) -- California v. Cabazon band of Mission Indians (1987) -- Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990) -- Native American Languages Act of 1990.