TY - BOOK AU - Nabokov,Peter TI - Native American testimony: a chronicle of Indian-white relations from prophecy to the present, 1492-1992 SN - 0670837040 AV - E93 .N3 1991 U1 - 970.00497 20 PY - 1991/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Viking KW - Indians of North America KW - Government relations KW - Sources KW - History KW - Indians, North American KW - history KW - Cross-Cultural Comparison N1 - 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 ER -