World turned upside down : Indian voices from early America, a brief history with documents. 2nd Ed

Calloway, Colin G. (Colin Gordon), 1953- (editor.).

Summary: Through a collection of speeches, letters, and primary accounts, this book provides insight into the underrepresented Native American voices of the colonial, Revolutionary, and early national periods. It portrays such themes as loss of land, war and peace, missionaries and Christianity, the education of Native American youth, European technology, European alcohol, and political changes within Indian societies in Early America.

Record details

ISBN: 1319052401
ISBN: 9781319052409
Physical Description: print
xvii, 220 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Boston, MA : Bedford/St Martin's, Macmillan Learning, [2016]
Copyright: ©2016

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-211) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Machine generated contents note: A World of Changes -- Indians in Colonial America -- Sources of Indian History: Weighing the Evidence -- The Documents -- 1.Voices from the Shore -- The Creation of the World -- 1.John Norton, Iroquois Creation Story, ca. 1816 -- The League of Peace in Wampum -- 2.The Hiawatha Wampum Belt -- The Creeks Come to Their Homeland -- 3.Chekilli, Origin of the Creek Confederacy, 1735 -- A Dream of Strangers -- 4.Josiah Jeremy, The Floating Island, 1869 -- Meeting the Dutch at Manhattan -- 5.John Heckewelder, The Arrival of the Dutch, ca. 1765 -- "What Can You Get by Warre...?" -- 6.Powhatan, Speech to Captain John Smith, 1609 -- A Pequot Looks Back at King Philip's War -- 7.William Apess, Eulogy on King Philip, 1836 -- 2.Cultural Conflicts, Contests, and Confluences -- A Native American Theological Debate -- 8.John Eliot, A Dialogue between Piumbukhou and His Unconverted Relatives, ca. 1671 -- A Mi'kmaq Questions French "Civilization"