The return of the native : American Indian political resurgence

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The return of the native : American Indian political resurgence / Stephen Cornell.

Cornell, Stephen E. (Stephen Ellicott), 1948- (Author).

Summary:

An incisive look at American Indian and Euro-American relations from the seventeenth century to the present, this book focuses on how such relations--and Indian responses to them--have shaped contemporary Indian political fortunes. Cornell shows how, in the early days of colonization, Indians were able to maintain their nationhood by playing off the competing European powers; and how the American Revolution and westward expansion eventually caused Native Americans to lose their land, social cohesion, and economic independence. The final part of the book recounts the slow, steady reemergence of.

Record details

ISBN: 0195065751
ISBN: 0195037723 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780195037722 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: viii, 278 pages ; 25 cm.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1988.

Content descriptions

General Note:: Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:: Bibliography: p. 267-270.
Formatted Contents Note:: The new Indian politics -- Exceptional beginnings: the fur trade and Indian labor -- Solving "the Indian problem" -- "They carry their lives on their finger nails" -- The transformations of the tribe -- New music, new partners, a new dance -- Toward a supratribal consciousness -- The politics of Indianness -- Who wants what? -- Old wars, new weapons -- Lieutenant Anthony's legacy -- Indian-White relations revised -- "Another world is coming."