Clearing a Path

Nancy Shoemaker, Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut, is the editor of Negotiatorsof Change: Historical Perspectives on Native AmericanWomen and the author of American Indian PopulationRecovery in the Twentieth Century.

Introduction by Nancy Shoemaker Stories Chapter 1. Oral History, Narrative Strategies and Native American Historiography: Perspectives from the Yukon Territory, Canada by Julie Cruikshank Chapter 2. The Story of America: A Tribalography by LeAnne Howe Categories of Analysis Chapter 3. Categories by Nancy Shoemaker Chapter 4. Some Women are Wiser Than Some Men: Gender and Native American History by Gunlog Fur Political Economy Chapter 5. Marxism and Historical Materialism in American Indian History by Patricia C. Albers Chapter 6. Primary Sources: Indian Goods and the History of American Colonialism and the Nineteenth-Century Reservation by Jacki Thompson Rand Tribal Histories, Indigenous Histories Chapter 7. Keep Your Thoughts Above the Trees: Ideas on Developing and Presenting Tribal Histories by Craig Howe Chapter 8. Life Proceeds From the Name: Indigenous Peoples and the Predicament of Hybridity by James F. Brooks Notes on Contributors Index