About the Author
Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., a leading historian of the American West, was the author of many award-winning books, including The Patriot Chiefs, The Indian Heritage of America, Now That the Buffalos Gone, 500 Nations, and A Walk Toward Oregon. He was a vice president and editor of American Heritage magazine, the founding chairman of the board of trustees of the Smithsonians National Museum of the American Indian, and president of the Western History Association. Josephy died in the fall of 2005, shortly after completing this book.
Table of Contents
Author's NoteMap
Introduction
PART ONE
Frenchmen, Bears, and Sandbars
by Vine Deloria, Jr.
What We See
by Debra Magpie Earling
Who's Your Daddy?
by Mark D. Trahant
Merriwether and Billy and the Indian Business
by Bill Yellowtail
Our People Have Always Been Here
by Roberta Conner
PART TWO
Mandan and Hidatsa of the Upper Missouri
by Gerard A. Baker
We Ya Oo Yet Soyapo
by Allen V. Pinkham, Sr.
The Ceremony at Ne-Ah-Coxie
by Roberta and Richard Basch
The Voices of Encounter
by N. Scott Momaday