Competing voices from native America : fighting words

Ball, Dewi Ioan (Author). Porter, Joy, (Author., Author).

Summary: A selection of short primary-source accounts from a variety of sources, including newspaper reports, Congressional documents, government documents, and Indian tribal sources, highlighting conflicts and controversies and presenting the opposing views of Native and non-Native Americans.

Record details

ISBN: 1846450160
ISBN: 9781846450167
Physical Description: print
xvii, 445 pages ; 24 cm
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood World, 2009

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Origins of the world and 'discovery' -- Spirituality and faith, 1550-1805 -- Land and the environment, 1500s-1810 -- War and revolution, 1675-1800s -- Removal era, 1800s-1840s -- Three key events in Western expansion : Sand Creek (1864), Little Big Horn (1876), and Wounded Knee (1890) -- Era of assimilation and allotment, 1887-1934 -- Indian New Deal era, 1928-1941 -- Termination era, 1945-1970 -- Key events of the Red Power era : Alcatraz (1969), Trail of Broken Treaties and the occupation of the BIA headquarters (1972) and Wounded Knee (1973) -- Leonard Peltier -- Contemporary federal Indian law and jurisdiction -- Indian gaming -- Indian representation, museums and the repatriation of Indian bones -- Endmatter.