Native American testimony : a chronicle of Indian-white relations from prophecy to the present, 1492-1992 / edited by Peter Nabokov ; with a foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 443-459) and index.

Foreword -- Introduction -- Pt. 1. First Encounter to Dispossession -- Ch. 1. Premonitions and Prophecies -- 1. He Will Use Any Means to Get What He Wants -- 2. White Rabbit Got Lotsa Everything -- 3. Visitors from Heaven -- 4. Thunder's Dream Comes True -- 5. Easy Life of the Gray-Eyed -- 6. The Spider's Web -- Ch. 2. Face to Face -- 1. Their Wondrous Works and Ways -- 2. Before They Got Thick -- 3. Silmoodawa Gives a Complete Performance -- 4. A Different Kind of Man -- 5. I Hid Myself and Watched -- Ch. 3. Exchange Between Worlds -- 1. Thunder, Dizzying Liquid, and Cups That Do Not Grow -- 2. Keep Your Presents -- 3. Give Us Good Goods -- 4. You Rot the Guts of Our Young Men -- 5. Some Strange Animal -- 6. Buttocks Bags and Green Coffee Bread -- 7. The Bewitched Pale Man -- Ch. 4. Bearers of the Cross -- 1. Burn the Temples, Break Up the Bells -- 2. A Good Indian's Dilemma -- 3. We Never Quarrel About Religion -- 4. Janitin Is Named Jesus -- 5. The Freedom to Work -- 6. A Shaman Obeys -- 7. Always Give Blessings and Be Thankful -- Ch. 5. Living Beside Each Other -- 1. Remove the Cause of Our Uneasiness -- 2. Mary Jemison Becomes an Iroquois -- 3. Our Very Good Friend Kirk -- 4. The Frenchman Dreams Himself Home -- 5. Incident at Boyer Creek -- 6. Our Stock of Food and Clothes -- 7. If I Could See This Thing -- Ch. 6. The Long Resistance -- 1. We Must Be United -- 2. Black Hawk Stands Alone -- 3. Blood Scattered Like Water -- 4. Young Men, Go Out and Fight Them -- 5. Geronimo Puts Down the Gun -- Ch. 7. The Treaty Trail -- 1. Let Us Examine the Facts -- 2. Osceola Determined -- 3. My Son, Stop Your Ears -- 4. We Are Not Children -- 5. Plenty Coups Travels to Washington -- Ch. 8. Exiles in their Own Land -- 1. Plea from the Chickasaw -- 2. Tushpa Crosses the Mississippi -- 3. Corralling the Navajo -- 4. The Uprooted Winnebago -- 5. Standing Bear's Odyssey -- Ch. 9. The Nation's Hoop is Broken and Scattered -- 1. The Buffalo Go -- 2. Take Care of Me -- 3. I Am Alone -- 4. I Have Spoken -- 5. I Want to Look for My Children -- 6. No Dawn to the East -- 7. Gone Forever -- 8. This Awful Loneliness -- 9. A Wish -- Pt. 2. Reservation to Resurgence -- Ch. 10. The Very Small Islands -- 1. Treated Better by Wolves -- 2. We Lost Everything -- 3. The Way Agents Get Rich -- 4. The Career of Ely Parker -- 5. Annie Makes Her Choice -- 6. We Had Everything to Learn -- Ch. 11. To Learn Another Way -- 1. Responsive and Resistant Students -- 2. He Is Not One of Us -- 3. What Harm Is in Our Sun-dance? -- 4. We Will Dance -- 5. Dr. Fewkes Plays Like a Child -- 6. Judge Wooden Leg Keeps One Wife -- Ch. 12. The Flood has Come -- 1. A House of Our Own -- 2. Luther's Father Stands Alone -- 3. Half White and Half Indian -- 4. We Want to Tell You Something -- 5. He-na Tom, the Hoodwinker -- 6. The Dead Did Not Return -- Ch. 13. Hearts on the Ground -- 1. Life on the Checkerboard -- 2. Big Man's Rules and Laws -- 3. The Outrage of Allotment -- 4. Farming and Futility -- 5. The Hopi Push of War -- Ch. 14. A Twentieth-Century Indian Voice -- 1. The Best and the Brightest -- 2. Laughing at Themselves -- 3. From Wassaja to Montezuma -- 4. Suddenly a Gate -- 5. Following the Medicine -- 6. Scandal in Oklahoma -- Ch. 15. Interlude of Hope -- 1. Hard Times in Sioux Country -- 2. Neglect Along the Klamath -- 3. The Twenties at San Juan -- 4. Commissioner Collier Is on Our Side -- 5. Resisting the Indian New Deal -- 6. Debate Over IRA -- 7. Reducing Navajo Sheep -- Ch. 16. In and Out of the Mainstream -- 1. Counting Coup in World War Two -- 2. A Code Talker Comes Home -- 3. The Menominees Are Terminated -- 4. On Relocation -- 5. Stopping Erosion -- Ch. 17. Let's Raise Some Hell -- 1. The New Indian Wars -- 2. Invading Alcatraz -- 3. Discovery: The Beeah Tribe -- 4. Birth of AIM -- 5. Confrontation or Negotiation -- Ch. 18. So Long as this Land Exists -- 1. Going Back -- 2. Hopis and the Love Generation -- 3. Eskimos and "The Act" -- 4. Dark Sky Over Black Mesa -- 5. Indian Children in Crisis -- Ch. 19. It's Hard to be Indian -- 1. What Am I -- 2. Alone and Very Scared -- 3. Notes from Indian Country -- 4. Before and After Gambling -- 5. Sovereignty Revitalized -- 6. Restoring Life to the Dead -- 7. First and Last Eskimos -- 8. Resistance at Oka -- 9. Confronting Columbus Again -- Ch. 20. Towards a Native Millennium -- 1. Thorns in the Side -- 2. History Repeating Itself -- 3. Old Names in Charge -- 4. Different Programs -- 5. Reuniting with Beauty -- 6. Speedboat or Canoe? -- 7. An Eagle Nation -- 8. The End of the World -- Notes on Sources -- Illustration Credits -- Index.

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