Table of Contents

Contents

List of maps
List of contributors
Introduction

Part One: Major Chapters in the Native American Past
1. America in 1492 (Cameron B. Wesson)
2. European Invasions and Early Settlement, 1500-1680 (Robbie Ethridge)
3. Living in a Reordered World, 1680-1763 (Kathleen DuVal)
4. The Age of Imperial Expansion, 1763-1821 (Claudio Saunt)
5. U.S. Expansion and its Consequences, 1815-1890 (John P. Bowes)
6. Surviving the 20th Century, 1890-1960 (Paul C. Rosier)
7. The Indian Renaissance, 1960-2000: Stumbling to Victory, or Anecdotes of Persistence? (Robert Warrior)
8. Contemporary History: Native America in the Twenty-First Century (Paul DeMain)

Part Two: Regional and Tribal Histories
9. The Great Lakes (Jill Doerfler and Erik Redix)
10. Iroquoia (Timothy J. Shannon)
11. The Southwest (James F. Brooks)
12. The Plains (Jeffrey Ostler)
13. The Pacific Northwest (Andrew H. Fisher)
14. California (William J. Bauer, Jr.)
15. Alaska (Rosita Kaaháni Worl)
16. The South (Christina Snyder)
17. The Atlantic Northeast (Neal Salisbury)
18. Indian Territory and Oklahoma (Troy D. Smith)
19. The Great Basin (Gregory E. Smoak)

Part Three: Big Themes
20. Gender, Sexuality, and Family History: Naynaabeak's Fishing Net (Brenda J. Child)
21. Population, Health and Public Welfare (David Jones)
22. Spirituality (David Delgado Shorter)
23. Native American Expressive Arts (Anya Montiel)
24. Collectors and Museums: From Cabinets of Curiosities to Indigenous Cultural Centers (Scott Manning Stevens)
25. Indians in the Marketplace (Alexandra Harmon)
26. Intellectual History (Lisa Brooks)
27. Treaties and Treaty Making (Colin G. Calloway)
28. Urban Native Histories (Coll Thrush)
29. American Indians in Popular Culture (Dustin Tahmahkera)
30. American Indians in World History (Michael Witgen)

Index

About the Author

Frederick E. Hoxie is Swanlund Professor of History, Law, and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. A former Director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History and Vice President for Research and Education at the Newberry Library, he is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made and Parading Through History:
The Making of the Crow Nation in America.

Reviews

"Bringing a rigorous standard of scholarship to the task, the contributors to this large, impressive volume, begin with the period before the European invasion of America in 1492 and continue to the present century, covering the entire territory from the East coast to Alaska..."--Curt Bench, Bench Press
"[A]n innovative and timely source that examines not only the historical facts but also the clashing interpretations crucial to understanding Native American history...Recommended."--CHOICE
"[T]he volume will appeal to Americanists and Native Americanists alike, and the clearly written and well-argued essays make for terrific reading at the undergraduate and graduate levels."--Steven J. Peach, The Journal of Southern History