Bibliograph

Native American testimony, a chronicle of Indian-white relations from prophecy to the present, 1492-1992, edited by Peter Nabokov ; with a foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr

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Label

Native American testimony, a chronicle of Indian-white relations from prophecy to the present, 1492-1992, edited by Peter Nabokov ; with a foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 443-459) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Native American testimony

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

22763476

Responsibility statement

edited by Peter Nabokov ; with a foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr

Sub title

a chronicle of Indian-white relations from prophecy to the present, 1492-1992

Summary

A collection of documents in which Native Americans describe their responses to the explorers, traders, missionaries, settlers, and government diplomats and soldiers seeking dominion over their ancient homeland

Table Of Contents

Premonitions and prophecies -- Face to face -- Exchange between worlds -- Bearers of the cross -- Living beside each other -- The long resistance -- The treaty trail -- Exiles in their own land -- The Nation's hoop is broken and scattered -- The very small islands -- To learn another way -- The flood has come -- Hearts on the ground -- Twentieth-century Indian voice -- Interlude of hope -- In and out of the mainstream -- Let's raise some hell -- So long as the land exists -- It's hard to be Indian -- Towards a Native millennium

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