History of American Indians

Exploring Diverse Roots

Robert R. McCoy, Steven M. Fountain

• Publisher: Greenwood
• Year: 2017
• ISBN:
  9798216097068
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Native American Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

A comprehensive look at the entirety of Native American history, focusing particularly on native peoples within the geographic boundaries of the United States. The history of American Indians is an integral part of American history overall—a part that is often overlooked. History of American Indians: Exploring Diverse Roots provides a broad chronological overview of Native American history that challenges readers to grapple with the elemental themes of adaptation, continuity, and persistence. The book enables a deeper understanding of the origins and early history of American Indians and presents new scholarship based on the latest research. Readers will learn a wealth of American Indian history as well as appreciate the key role American Indians played in certain significant stages of American history as a whole. The direct connections between the events in the past and many current hot-button topics—such as race, climate change, water use, and other issues—are clearly identified. The book's straightforward, chronological presentation makes it a helpful and easy-to-read scholarly work appropriate for advanced high school and undergraduate college students.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chronology of Key Dates in American Indian History
• Chapter 1. A Native America
• Chapter 2. New Peoples and Shatter Zones
• Chapter 3. Increasing Colonial Contacts
• Chapter 4. Colonial Alliances and the New Nation
• Chapter 5. The Equestrian Plains, 1600s to 1851
• Chapter 6. California and Tierra Despoblada, 1760s–1840s
• Chapter 7. Pacific Northwest Trade and Treaties, 1770s–1860s
• Chapter 8. Removal and Reservations, 1820s–1860s
• Chapter 9. American Indians and the Civil War
• Chapter 10. Resisting Outsiders
• Chapter 11. Assimilation(s) and Reservation Life, 1880–1900
• Chapter 12. Last Men, Wild West Shows, and Survival, 1890–1924
• Chapter 13. The Indian New Deal and World War II, 1924–1945
• Chapter 14. Relocation, Termination, and Self-Determination
• Chapter 15. Red Power, Resistance, and Self-Determination, 1960–1980
• Chapter 16. Looking to the Future
• Bibliography
• Index
• About the Authors