American Indian places : a historical guidebook

Summary: A guide to 366 places that are significant to American Indians and open to the public. Organized geographically, the guide includes location information, maps, and suggestions for further reading about the sites.

Record details

ISBN: 9780395633366
ISBN: 0395633362
Physical Description: print
xxiv, 335 pages, [16] pages of plates : color illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-311) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Early mound builders / Bradley T. Lepper -- Effigy mound builders / Robert A. Birmingham -- Eastern North America / Daniel K. Richter -- King Philip's War / James D. Drake ; The fur trade / William R. Swagerty -- Fort Johnson, Johnson Hall, and the Anglo-Mohawk Allliance / Kirk Davis Swinehart -- American Indians and the American Revolution / Colin G. Calloway -- Fort Stanwix, Oriskany Battlefield, and Newtown Battlefield / John C. Mohawk -- Under treaty oaks : lingering shadows of unfinished business / Rennard Strickland -- Manoominike : making wild rice / Winona LaDuke -- The Black Hawk War / Michael Sherfy -- American Indian boarding schools / Brenda J. Child -- Sacred places and visitor protocols / Suzan Shown Harjo -- Florida's Native American heritage / Jerald T. Milanich -- Three places in the domain of the Calusa / William H. Marquardt -- Mississippian : a way of life / Stephen Williams -- The rise and fall of the Mississippians / T.R. Pauketat -- Franciscan designs for the native people of La Florida / David Hurst Thomas -- Trail of Tears National Historic Trail : the forced removal of the Cherokee / Duane King -- Removal and recovery / Louis Coleman and Robert Powell West -- Consitutional government among the Five Civilized Tribes / Bob L. Blackburn -- American Indians and the Civil War / Laurence M. Hauptman -- People and place / Philip J. Deloria -- Tools from the earth / Catherine M. Cameron -- Pictographs and petroglyphs in Texas / Solveig A. Turpin -- Buffalo jumps / Rosalyn R. LaPier -- The myth of nomadism and indigenous lands / David E. Wilkins -- The Dakota in Minnesota, 1851-1862 / Lenor A. Scheffler -- The Battle of the Little Bighorn / Gerard Baker [and others] -- Places and spaces / Dave Warren -- Great Basin indigenous places / Catherine S. Fowler -- Petroglyphs and pictographs in the Great Basin / Alanah Woody and Angus R. Quinlan -- Expanding the dialogue between American Indians and non-Indian archaeologists / Joe E. Watkins -- The Hohokam : people of the desert / Patricia L. Crown -- The Fremont / David B. Madsen -- Ancestral Pueblo peoples / Linda S. Cordell -- The people of the Mimbres Mogollon Region / Margaret C. Nelson and Michael W. Diehl -- Chacoans away from home : Chacoan outlying communities / Florence C. Lister -- Seven great house communities of the Chacoan era / John Kantner -- The Chaco Meridan / Stephen H. Lekson -- The Pueblo diaspora / James E. Snead ; The Sinagua / Christian E. Downum -- So far and yet so near / Clara Sue Kidwell -- The elusive salado / Jeffery J. Clark and Patricia D. Lyons -- American Indians' spirituality and land use / Charles Wilkinson -- The history of the Pueblo Indians / Joe S. Sando -- Wisdom sits in places / Keith H. Basso -- Tree-ring and radiocarbon dating / Jeffrey S. Dean -- Native Californians / Malcolm Margolin -- Founding a tribal museum : the Malki Museum / Katherine Siva Saubel and Paul Apodaca -- California missions / Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz -- Our final place / Larry Myers -- The Nez Perce before 1876 / Josiah Pinkham -- The Nez Perce since 1876 / Diana Mallickan and Allen Pinkham -- Contemporary American Indian identity and place / Duane Champagne.