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More About This Title Indians in American History: An Introduction Second Edition
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Like its highly popular and distinctive predecessor, this new edition of Indians in American History strives to fully integrate Indians into the conventional U.S. history narrative. Meticulously reedited throughout, this beautifully illustrated book features fourteen essays by fifteen authors who speak from a variety of disciplines and perspectives.
English
Contributors vii
Preface ix
Preface to the First Edition xi
Introduction, Indian/White Relations: A View from the Other Side of the "Frontier," 1
Alfonso Ortiz
Chapter One America Before Columbus 15
James A. Brown
Chapter Two The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans 39
Neal Salisbury
Chapter Three Indians in the Colonial Spanish Borderlands 62
Henry F. Dobyns
Chapter Four Native Americans and the American Revolution: Historic Stories and Shifting Frontier Conflict 87
Kenneth M. Morrison
Chapter Five Indian Tribes and the American Constitution 105
Charles F. Wilkinson
Chapter Six Indians in Southern History 121
Theda Perdue
Chapter Seven National Expansion from the Indian Perspective 140
R. David Edmunds
Chapter Eight How the West Was Lost 156
William T. Hagan
Chapter Nine The Curious Story of Reformers and the American Indians 177
Frederick E. Hoxie
Chapter Ten Modern America and the Indian 198
Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
Chapter Eleven The Struggle for Indian Civil Rights 218
W. Richard West, Jr. and Kevin Gover
Chapter Twelve The 1970s: New Leaders for Indian Country 255
Mark N. Trahant
Chapter Thirteen The Hearts of Nations: American Indian Women in the Twentieth Century 253
Paivi Hoikkala
Appendix 277
Index 284
