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.

Found in this Section:

1. Brief Table of Contents

2. Full Table of Contents







1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS



Chapter 7: Native Americans, the Civil War, and the War for the West, 1850-1877

Chapter 8: Assimilation or Extinction, 1860-1900

Chapter 9: Perseverance and Revival

Chapter 10: Native Americans, the Great Depression & World War II, and the Reorganization of Indian Country, 1930-1950

Chapter 11: Resurgent Indians, 1960-1980

Chapter 12: Native Americans into the Twenty First Century







2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS



Chapter 7: Native Americans, the Civil War, and the War for the West, 1850-1877

Native Voices North and South: The American Civil War

Isaac Newton Parker speaks about Racism within the Union Ranks

The Iroquois in the South

The Cherokees Fight for the Confederacy

Stand Watie talks to his Wife about the War

The Minnesota Indian War: A Forgotten Outcome of the Civil War

Little Crow's Speech

Taken Captive by the Sioux: Cecilia Campbell Stay's Account

Searching For Peace: Gabriel Renville and the Dakota Peace Party

Wars for the West

Treaty of Fort Laramie in 1851

George Bent recalls the Sand Creek Massacre

Pretty-Shield and the End of the Buffalo for the Crow Indians

The Kiowa Satank speaks at the Treaty of Medicine Lodge 1867

Plenty-Coups and the Crow fight the Sioux

Luther Standing Bear Recounts the Sioux Defeat of Custer

Chahadineli Benally remembers the Navajo Long Walk

Images

Isaac Newton Parker as a Young Warrior

Stand Watie

Little Crow

Howling Wolf and the End of the Buffalo

Standing Bear Remembers Custer



Chapter 8: Assimilation or Extinction, 1860-1900

Armed Resistance Continues: The Apache Wars

Geronimo Tells his Own Story

Assimilation & Resistance

The Dawes Act

Luther Standing Bear's Account of Boarding School Life

The Arapaho Carl Sweezy Remembers School

Charles Ohiyesa Eastman sees the Devastation of Wounded Knee

Crashing Thunder and the Peyote Cult

Images

Victorio

Geronimo

Image of Plains Children at Catholic Boarding School

The Seventh Calvary and the Pride In Death

A Sioux Remembers Wounded Knee



Chapter 9: Perseverance and Revival

Outspoken Advocates

Dr. Carlos Montezuma, "The Reservation Fate to the Development of Citizenship"

Chauncey Yellow Robe, "The Menace of the Wild West Show"

Native Americans and the Law

Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903)

United States ex rel. Diabo v. McCandless, 18 Federal Reporter (1927)

Primitivism versus Civilization

Zitkala Sa's "Why I am a Pagan"

"Declaration of All Pueblo Council"

World War I and the American Indian

Dr. Carlos Montezuma, "Drafting Indians and Justice"

Chauncey Yellow Robe, "Indian Patriotism"

Images

The Progressive Indian American"(1913)

"Expectation and Reality" (1916)

The Moki Dance by Walter Hough



Chapter 10: Native Americans, the Great Depression & World War II, and the Reorganization of Indian Country, 1930-1950

The Indian New Deal

The Meriam Report of 1928

The Arts and Crafts Act of 1935

John Collier's argument for Navajo Stock Reduction

A Cherokee Man Remembers the CCC

The Indian Reorganization Act

A Taos Pueblo, Antonio Luhan, Supports the IRA

World War II, Termination and Relocation:

Navajo Code Talkers Remember the War

An Omaha Indian Serves on the frontlines

The Cheyenne and Arapho Celebrate Their War Veterans

Ada Deer and the Menominee

Don Bread reflects on youth activism in the early 1960s

Klamath Termination and Their Land

Orvis Diabo and the Indian Urban Experience

Images

Navajo Marines

The Navajo Code

Native American Steelworkers

Menominee Drum Members March to State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin



Chapter 11: Resurgent Indians, 1960-1980

Red Power, Vietnam, AIM

John Luke FlyingHorse (Hunkapa/Sioux): His Account of the Vietnam War

"Proclamation of Indians of All Tribes" (November 1969)

Fights for Self-Determination in the 1970s

American Indian Task Force: "We Speak as Indians" (1969)

Navajo Community College/Dine College

Return of Blue Lake to the Taos Pueblos (1970)

American Indian Religious Freedom Act (1978)

The Longest Walk (1978)

Images

Indians in Vietnam: A Native American Medic

The Indian Occupation of Alcatraz

AIM at Wounded Knee



Chapter 12: Native Americans into the Twenty First Century

Government Policy and the Fight for Self-Determination

Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA)

California versus the Cabazon Band of Mission Indians (1987)

Native peoples React to Nuclear Waste Disposal

NAGPRA

A Makah Elder, Helma Swan, Speaks About Indian Whaling

Aesthetics, Politics, and Decolonization

Gerald Vizenor's use of the "Trickster"

James Welch's Blackfeet Story

Winona LaDuke speaks out against Nuclear Weapons

Decolonization: Daniel Heath Justice, "Conjuring Marks: Further Indigenous

Empowerment through Literature."

Images

Indian Gaming

Native American Protests Nuclear Waste Disposal

The Makah Whaler's Rattle

Makahs Go Whaling in the 1990s

Indian Art: Ace Blue Eagle "The Deer Spirit"

Indian Art: Oscar Howe, "Victory Dance"