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More About This Title They Made Us Many Promises: The American IndianExperience 1524 to the Present, Second Edition
English
Designed for use as a core text in one- or two-semester courses in American Indian History or as a supplement to any standard U.S. History survey, "They Made Us Many Promises" is certain to challenge readers' assumptions about the past and current roles of Indians in American society.
English
Foreword IX
The Authors XI
Part I A World Turned Upside Down 1
Chapter 1 Black Gowns and Massachusetts Men: Indian-White Relations in New France and New England to 1701 3
James P. Ronda
Chapter 2 Mutual Distrust and Mutual Dependency: Indian-White Relations in the Era of the Anglo-French Wars for Empire, 1689-1763 32
Dwight L. Smith
Chapter 3 Facing Off: Indian-Spanish Rivalry in the Greater Southwest, 1528-1821 49
David La Vere
Chapter 4 The Trail of tears: Removal of the Southern Indian in the Jeffersonian-Jacksonian Era 67
Theda Perdue
Chapter 5 Blue, Gray, and Red: Indian Affairs during the American Civil War 85
Philip Weeks
Chapter 6 Ambiguity and Misunderstanding: The Struggle between the U.S. Army and the Indians for the Great Plains 105
Thomas W. Dunlay
Part II Visions of a New Order 123
Chapter 7 The Bitter Years: Western Indian Reservation Life 125
Donald J. Berthrong
Chapter 8 Reformers' Images of the American Indians: The Late Nineteenth Century 145
William T. Hagan
Chapter 9 From Bullets to Boarding Schools: The Educational Assault on American Indians
David Wallace Adams
Chapter 10 The Divided Heart: The Indian New Deal 175
Graham D. Taylor
Chapter 11 Dislocated: The Federal Policy of Termination and Relocation, 1945-1960 193
Donald L. Fixico
Chapter 12 Finally Acknowledging Native Peoples: American Indian Policies since the Nixon Administration 210
Laurence M. Hauptman
Part III The Night is Far Gone, The Day is Near 229
Chapter 13 Bury My Heart in Smog: Urban Indians 231
Blue Clark
Chapter 14 Native Sovereignty: Then and Now in California and the Northwest 244
Clifford E. Trafzer
Chapter 15 Traditions and Transformations: American Indian Women in Historical Perspective 269
Päivi Hoikkala
Chapter 16 Our Dead Are Never Forgotten: American Indian Struggles for Burial Rights and Protections 291
James Riding In
Index 325
Maps
Major Northeastern Tribes in the Seventeenth Century 7
Location of Indian Tribes, 1689-1783 37
Indian Tribes of the Southwest, c. 1700 56
Major Western Tribes in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 107
State and Federally Recognized U.S. Indian Reservations 224
The California Missions 247
