Native American Perspectives

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Nearly 500 years of Native-American relations with white Americans are chronicled in this book of documents. A wide range of sources presents the Native-American perspective on this history. Beginning with the first encounters and moving through the colonial period, the Trail of Tears, the Great Plains Wars, Wounded Knee, the establishment of reservations, and the changing ears of official Indian policy to present day issues, the Native American voice speaks out. This collection represents many different Native American groups and regions. This Reader:

* offers historical perspectives on Native American experiences
* documents Native Americans with print and photographs

Contents: Prophecy and contact: Prophecies of our grandparents / by a storyteller -- Arrival of the white men / traditional legends -- Cheyenne memory / by John Stands in Timber -- My sun is set / Anonymous -- Religion: Code of Handsome Lake / by Chief Jacob Thomas -- Cruelty at the San Miguel mission / by Janitin -- Lecture to missionary Cram / by Red Jacket -- Coming of the black robes / by Julia Antelope Nicodemus -- Wovoka, the Paiute messiah / by Porcupine -- Resistance: Eyewitness to the Pueblo uprising / by Pedro Naranjo -- Plea to the Choctaws and the Chickasaws / by Tecumseh -- Great Sioux uprising / by Big Eagle -- Surrender speech / by Cochise . Destruction by policy and practice: Iroquois and the American Revolution / by Mary Jemison -- Cherokee removal / by Cherokee women and Rebecca Neugin -- Sand Creek massacre / by George Bent -- History of Nez Perce / by James Reuben -- from A short history of the Indians of the U.S. / by Francis La Flesche -- Hopi push of war / by Helen Sekaquaptewa -- We missed the bus / by George Peequaquat -- Survival: Evaluating the Indian Reorganization Act / by Alfred DuBray and Ramon Roubideaux -- Surviving in the cities / by Belle Jean Francis and Benny Bearskin -- On an Indian reservation: how colonialism works / by Robert K. Thomas -- Siege at Wounded Knee / by Mary Crow Dog -- Brief history of the American Indian Movement / by AIM -- Mr. President: protect the earth / by Corbin Harney -- On Columbus's quincentennial / by N. Scott Momaday .