Native Americans

Book

Native Americans / Arlene Hirschfelder ; [foreword by Beverly M. Wright].

Summary:

Features major events and figures in Native American history, from the first contact with Europeans to Native Americans' role in contemporary society, and explains their religious beliefs and customs.

Record details

ISBN: 078945162X (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780789451620 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: 192 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: New York : Dorling Kindersley Pub., 2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:: Includes bibliographical references (p. 186) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:: A conflict of cultures : ancestral times to 1850s (Ancestral native life -- The spirit world -- Native voice : Black Elk -- European penetration -- First European contacts -- Indian removals -- Native voice: Tecumseh -- Nature's harvest -- Indian homelands disrupted -- Opening up the West -- Arrival of the missionaries -- A traditional Indian childhood) -- Dispossession and loss: 1780s to 1860s (Time for talking -- Native voice: Harold Cardinal -- Indians in the Civil War -- the Santee Dakota revolt -- Native voice: Little Crow -- Massacre at Sand Creek -- The Navajo Long Walk -- Native voice: Manuelito).

War against native peoples: 1860s to 1890s (Southern plains conflict -- The staff of life -- War for the northern plains -- Battles for the west -- Battle of the Little Bighorn -- Wild west myths -- Canada past and present -- The Riel Rebellions -- Native voice: Louis Riel -- Wars for the West -- Native voice: Sarah Winnemucca -- The Nez Percé War -- Apaches hold out -- Native voice: Eskiminzin -- Carving up reservations -- Native voice: Carl Sweezy -- Boarding schools -- The end of armed resistance -- Native voice: American Horse) -- Resurgence and renewal: 1900 to present day (Life on the reservations -- Native voice: Pretty-Shield -- struggle for a New Deal -- On military service -- Termination and relocation -- Trading an image -- the march of Red Power -- Native voice: Adam Fortunate Eagle -- The fight continues -- Homelands in the US today -- Contemporary Indian life -- Native voice: Wilma Mankiller -- Revitalized cultures -- Native voice: Ella Deloria).