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American Indians in American history, 1870-2001 : a companion reader / edited by Sterling Evans ; foreword by Donald L. Fixico.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.Description: xv, 249 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0275972771 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Contents:
PART I: THE 1870s AND 1880s: THE CLASH OF CULTURES: Being native to this place / Raymond Pierotti (Comanche) and Daniel R. Wildcat (Yuchi) -- Wars of the peace policy, 1869-1886 / Robert M. Utley -- PART II: THE 1890s AND EARLY 1900s: ASSIMILATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS: Becoming a community: the Nez Perces confront the Dawes Act / Elizabeth James-Stern -- Federal Indian education / Margaret Connell Szasz -- "The Father tells me so!" Wovoka: the ghost dance prophet / L. G. Moses -- Progressive-Era bureaucrats and the unity of Twentieth-Century Indian policy / Russel Lawrence Barsh -- PART III: THE 1930s-1945: AMERICAN INDIANS DURING DEPRESSION AND WAR: The Indian New Deal as a mirror of the future / D'Arcy McNickle (Salish-Kutenai) -- Fighting a White man's war: the extent and legacy of American Indian participation in World War II / Tom Holm (Creek, Cherokee) -- PART IV: 1945-1960: TERMINATION, RELOCATION, AND STEREOTYPES: Building toward self-determination: Plains and Southwestern Indians in the 1940s and 1950s / Peter Iverson -- The labor of extras: American Indians in Hollywood, 1941-1960 / Liza Black -- PART V: THE 1960s and 1970s: SELF-DETERMINATION, ACTIVISM, AND SPIRITUAL RIGHTS: Federal Indian policy and self-determination during the Kennedy and Johnson years / Thomas Clarkin -- A Journey to freedom: Richard Oakes, American Indian activism, and the occupation of Alcatraz / Kent Blansett (Cherokee) -- The Peyote Religion and the Native American Church / Daniel C. Swan -- PART VI: THE 1980s-2000: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN INDIAN ISSUES: Commonality of difference: American Indian women and history / Devon A. Mihesuah (Choctaw) -- Repatriation, reburial, and religious rights / Walter R. Echo-Hawk (Pawnee) and Roger C. Echo-Hawk (Pawnee) -- Coyote's game: Indian casinos and the Indian presence in contemporary America / Christopher L. Miller -- The demand for natural resources on reservations / Donald L. Fixico (Creek, Sac, and Fox, Seminole, Shawnee)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-223) and index.

PART I: THE 1870s AND 1880s: THE CLASH OF CULTURES: Being native to this place / Raymond Pierotti (Comanche) and Daniel R. Wildcat (Yuchi) -- Wars of the peace policy, 1869-1886 / Robert M. Utley -- PART II: THE 1890s AND EARLY 1900s: ASSIMILATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS: Becoming a community: the Nez Perces confront the Dawes Act / Elizabeth James-Stern -- Federal Indian education / Margaret Connell Szasz -- "The Father tells me so!" Wovoka: the ghost dance prophet / L. G. Moses -- Progressive-Era bureaucrats and the unity of Twentieth-Century Indian policy / Russel Lawrence Barsh -- PART III: THE 1930s-1945: AMERICAN INDIANS DURING DEPRESSION AND WAR: The Indian New Deal as a mirror of the future / D'Arcy McNickle (Salish-Kutenai) -- Fighting a White man's war: the extent and legacy of American Indian participation in World War II / Tom Holm (Creek, Cherokee) -- PART IV: 1945-1960: TERMINATION, RELOCATION, AND STEREOTYPES: Building toward self-determination: Plains and Southwestern Indians in the 1940s and 1950s / Peter Iverson -- The labor of extras: American Indians in Hollywood, 1941-1960 / Liza Black -- PART V: THE 1960s and 1970s: SELF-DETERMINATION, ACTIVISM, AND SPIRITUAL RIGHTS: Federal Indian policy and self-determination during the Kennedy and Johnson years / Thomas Clarkin -- A Journey to freedom: Richard Oakes, American Indian activism, and the occupation of Alcatraz / Kent Blansett (Cherokee) -- The Peyote Religion and the Native American Church / Daniel C. Swan -- PART VI: THE 1980s-2000: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN INDIAN ISSUES: Commonality of difference: American Indian women and history / Devon A. Mihesuah (Choctaw) -- Repatriation, reburial, and religious rights / Walter R. Echo-Hawk (Pawnee) and Roger C. Echo-Hawk (Pawnee) -- Coyote's game: Indian casinos and the Indian presence in contemporary America / Christopher L. Miller -- The demand for natural resources on reservations / Donald L. Fixico (Creek, Sac, and Fox, Seminole, Shawnee)