Native Voices

Mark A. Nicholas teaches history in Florida. He has co-authored First Americans: A History of Native Peoples for Pearson (2012). He has two books in progress, Indian Space, Always in the Making: American Nationhood and Indian Territory for University of Arizona Press, and A Seneca New Order, Culture and the State in New York, 1783-1855 for Michigan State University Press.

In this Section:

1. Brief Table of Contents

2. Full Table of Contents





1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS



Chapter 1: History from the Native American Point of View

Chapter 2: Natives & Newcomers: Fifteenth & Sixteenth Centuries

Chapter 3: The Seventeenth Century Spanish Borderlands and Eastern Woodlands

Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century to 1763 in Times of Peace and War

Chapter 5: The Indians' Revolution, 1763-1814: Across the Continent

Chapter 6: A New Order and Expansion West 1820-1850









2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS



Chapter 1: History from the Native American Point of View

Controversy: Native Americans & Science

Vine Deloria Jr., Native American Geomythology

Calvin Luther Martin, Native Americans, Animals, and the Scientific Problem

Julie Cruikshank, Indigenous Local Knowledge of Glaciers

Native American Voices about Their Beginnings

Hopi Story of the Sunset Crater

Cherokee Origin Story Kanati and Selu

The Iroquois Origin Story

Images

Image of the Sunset Crater

Goatherd Mountain and the Shaman



Chapter 2: Natives & Newcomers: Fifteenth & Sixteenth Centuries

New Spain

Excerpts from Florentine Codex Book Twelve

Huaman Poma de Ayala, "Letter to A King"

lvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca. Portions from "The Narrative of Cabeza de Vaca."

Negotiating North American Exploration & Early Settlement

Iroquoian Speakers and Coastal Algonquians Encounter Jacques Cartier

Le Page Du Pratz, an Eighteenth-Century Dutchman, Witnesses the Decline of the

Mississippian Chiefdoms in the Lower Mississippi Valley.

Thomas Hariot, "A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia."

Images

Mayan Lords in Glyphs

Huaman Poma de Ayala Drawings

Thomas Hariot's watercolors



Chapter 3: The Seventeenth Century Spanish Borderlands and Eastern Woodlands

Spanish Borderlands

The Memorial of Fray Alonso de Benevides of 1630, Account of Apache

Puebloan Voices from the Pueblo Revolt of 1680

Songs and Memories of Borderlands Slavery. La Cautiva Marcelina

Settlement in the Eastern Woodlands

Relation of Captain John Smith and his life saved by Pocahontas

Great Lakes Indians establish relations with Samuel de Champlain

Jesuit Paul Le Jeune in 1634, the Montagnais, and the Beaver

Hiacoomes the first Christian Indian, and Minister of Martha's Vineyard

Jesuit Relation of 1640-1641 "Of the Capture of Two Frenchmen Who Were

Taken to the Country of the Hiroquois (Iroquois) and Their Return to the

Three Rivers."

Nicholas Perrot Negotiates the Middle Ground

Wampanoag Grievances against the Colonists of New England before the

Outbreak of Metacom's War, 1675-1676"

Images

Maria de Jesus de Agreda, "Lady in Blue"

John Smith Saved by Pocahontas

An Ottawa Indian



Chapter 4: The Eighteenth Century to 1763 in Times of Peace and War

Treaty Language, Land, and Trade

Excerpts from The Great Peace of Montreal between the French & the Iroquois in 1701

The Walking Purchase Treaty

Excerpts from the Albany Congress 1754

Trade in the Southeast among the Creeks and Cherokees

The Indians' Awakening and War

The Mahican Esther and Moravian Conversion

The Mohegan Minister Joseph Johnson's Speech to the Oneidas

The Master of Life Speaks to the Wolf in 1763

Pontiac's Surrender

The Proclamation of 1763

Images

Chickasaw Mapping of their place in the Southeast

Neolin's Master of Life

The Proclamation Line

The Death of General Wolfe



Chapter 5: The Indians' Revolution, 1763-1814: Across the Continent

Indians' Revolution in the East

Lt. Henry Timberlake among the Cherokees

Governor Blacksnake (Chainbreaker) Remembers the Revolution

Captain Pipe Speaks Plainly About the British

Indians' Revolution in the East Continues

The Western Confederacy of Indians in Brownstown

Moravian Springplace Diary of Cherokee Religious Revivalism

Treaty of Fort Jackson after Creek Redstick Rebellion

Red Jacket's Speech to the Reverend Jacob Cram (1805)

Indians' Revolution in the West

Toypurina's Interrogation from 1785

Spanish Peace with the Comanche Nation in 1786

Images

Timberlake's Map of the Cherokees on the Eve of the American Revolution

Lands Acquired by the Treaty of Fort Jackson and Table of Lands Returned

Red Jacket

Archangel Raphael at the Mission Santa Ines



Chapter 6: A New Order and Expansion West 1820-1850

Removal & Resistance

Andrew Jackson's Speech on Indian Removal

Cherokee Phoenix extracts about Indian Removal

Cherokee Women Petition Against Removal

William Apess Account of the Mashpee Revolt

Excerpts from the Treaty of Prarie du Chein (1825)

The New York Oneida negotiate removal to Wisconsin

New Order The West

Reading Lakota Winter Count

Russian Account of the Koniaga Indians

Excerpt from Andele's Account as a Mexican-Kiowa Captive

Remembering Captivity in the Texas in the WPA Narratives

Images

James Treat's Journal Entry of Surveying Maine

Map of the Potawotami "Trail of Death"

Captive Spanish Women