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. - xxiii, 474 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

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

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

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Indians of North America--Government relations--Sources
Indians of North America--History--Sources
Indians of North America--History
Indians, North American--history
Cross-Cultural Comparison.

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