Synopses & Reviews
Not restricted to writings about specifically military conflict, the anthology takes in 'fighting words' - of both Natives and non-Natives in the United States - on a range of conflicts and bitterly-contested issues involving Native American experiences and rights, from the period of 'discovery', through the colonial era and the Indian wars, via the federal developments in policy in the 19th and 20th centuries, to the present day, with its ongoing disputes, such as the bitter argument over political prisoner Leonard Peltier or the struggle between Natives and non-Natives over law, jurisdiction and gaming in Indian Country. Deploying a wide variety of sources, including newspaper reports, congressional documents, government documents and Indian tribal sources, the anthology is divided into chapters, each of which highlights a conflict or controversy, giving the opposing views of Native Americans and non-Native Americans. Key issues explored in this way include spirituality, the appropriate human relationship to nature and land, the sustained period of conflict in Indian country from 1676 to the beginning of the nineteenth century, Indian Removal, the events at Sand Creek (1864), Little Big Horn (1876) and Wounded Knee (1890), the reform from the time of the Meriam Act to the onset of World War II, the termination of the federal trusteeship relationship of the U.S. government and Indian peoples, case of activist Leonard Peltier in the 1970s, major recent developments concerning Indian law and jurisdiction on and off reservations, gaming and Indian economic, political and cultural concerns, and the rights to represent, speak for or about Native American Indians rage on campuses, within museums, and within American cultural life generally.
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"This is a documentary reader that provides a broad array of Native and non-Native primary source perspectives on key issues and events in Native American history." - Reference & Research Book News
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"The volume follows both a chronological and thematic arrangement with each chapter prefaced by a clear, edifying introduction to the topic. The documents themselves are drawn from a variety of sources on Native and non-Native sides of the issue and are comprised of legends, reports, treaties, court cases, letters, and memoirs and prefaced by brief introductions. Examples include documents by Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson, Tecumseh, and Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell. The work concludes with a time line, extensive source notes, and a comprehensive bibliography for each chapter, providing opportunities for further research. Whether discussing Pontiac's Rebellion or the 1977 trial of Leonard Peltier, these documents are sure to inspire debate among advanced students." - School Library Journal
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". . . easy-to-use, provocative . . . likely to be of value at many educational levels. . . . Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers." - Choice
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"…a good choice for a reference collection, or as a companion textbook for a class." - ARBAonline
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and#8220;Josephine Waggonerand#8217;s writings offer a unique perspective on the Lakota. Witness will become a widely referenced primary source. Emily Levine has meticulously examined all known collections of Waggonerand#8217;s manuscripts, sometimes comparing handwritten drafts with multiple typed copies to preserve information in full. Levineand#8217;s extensive notes are well chosen and informative. Witness will interest both specialist and popular audiences.and#8221;and#8212;Raymond DeMallie, Chancellorsand#8217; Professor of Anthropology and American Indian Studies at Indiana University
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"Rubin offers an interdisciplinary perspective on Indians in Christian missions by successfully combining methodologies originating in the sociology of religion with those in ethnohistory."and#8212;S.A. Klein, Choice
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"There is a great deal in Tears of Repentance that should be of interest to anthropologists researching colonialism, religion, and personhood."and#8212;Jack David Eller, Anthropology Review Database
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"Tears of Repentance is recommended for all scholars of early New England."and#8212;Matthew Sparacio, H-AmIndian
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andquot;This is a work that offers someone new to the topic a useful overview of the history and meaning of Indian conversions. For the specialist reader, it is useful to see the whole knit together afresh and to reap the benefits of Rubin's careful and synthetic analysis of the extensive primary sources and secondary literatures.andquot;andmdash;Ann Marie Plane, Connecticut History Review
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"Oskison cuts an unorthodox and compelling figure in this remarkable anthology."and#8212;Publishers Weekly
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"This book deserves a close read and a place on every Arizona historian's bookshelf."and#8212;Victoria Smith, Journal of Arizona History
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andquot;A book written from a Native personand#39;s point of view provides a rareandmdash;and therefore much neededandmdash;narrative about American societyand#39;s impact on indigenous peoples.andquot;andmdash;Edward Valandra, Great Plains Quarterly
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andquot;This is an unprecedented addition to the field of Dakota/Lakota scholarship.andquot;andmdash;Shannon D. Smith, Nebraska History
Synopsis
Not restricted to writings about specifically military conflict, the anthology takes in 'fighting words' - of both Natives and non-Natives in the United States - on a range of conflicts and bitterly-contested issues involving Native American experiences and rights, from the period of 'discovery', through the colonial era and the Indian wars, via the federal developments in policy in the 19th and 20th centuries, to the present day, with its ongoing disputes, such as the bitter argument over political prisoner Leonard Peltier or the struggle between Natives and non-Natives over law, jurisdiction and gaming in Indian Country.
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A unique, carefully-chosen selection of short, stimulating primary-source accounts describes controversial moments in Native American history since 1492, sharing both Native and non-Native viewpoints.
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• Breaks new ground in bringing together voices from all the different participants
• Eyewitness accounts of key flashpoints are vividly presented to capture the excitement of historical events and debates
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• Chapters each highlight a conflict or controversy from the perspectives of both Native and non-Native Americans
• Sources include newspaper reports, congressional documents, government documents, and Indian tribal sources
• Short, snappy extracts, with contextual explanations are tailored for high school students writing papers on Native America
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Not restricted to writings about military conflict, this anthology presents student researchers with the words of both Natives and non-Natives on a wide range of conflicts and bitterly contested issues involving Native American experiences and rights.
Deploying an extensive array of sources, including newspaper reports, congressional documents, government documents, and Indian tribal sources, Competing Voices from Native America: Fighting WordS≪/i> is divided into chapters, each of which highlights a conflict or controversy and presents the opposing views of Native Americans and non-Native Americans. Key issues explored include spirituality and human relationship to nature and land. Events presented range from "Discovery," through the period of conflict beginning in 1676 and extending to the beginning of the 19th century, to Indian Removal, the termination of the federal trusteeship relationship of the U.S. government and Indian peoples, and major recent developments.
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During the 1920s and 1930s, Josephine Waggoner (1871and#8211;1943), a Lakota woman who had been educated at Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute in Virginia, grew increasingly concerned that the history and culture of her people were being lost as elders died without passing along their knowledge. A skilled writer, Waggoner set out to record the lifeways of her people and correct much of the misinformation about them spread by white writers, journalists, and scholars of the day. To accomplish this task, she traveled to several Lakota and Dakota reservations to interview chiefs, elders, traditional tribal historians, and other tribal members, including women.
Published for the first time and augmented by extensive annotations, Witness offers a rare participantand#8217;s perspective on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Lakota and Dakota life. The first of Waggonerand#8217;s two manuscripts presented here includes extraordinary firsthand and as-told-to historical stories by tribal members, such as accounts of life in the Powder River camps and at the agencies in the 1870s, the experiences of a mixed-blood Hand#250;and#331;kpapand#543;a girl at the first off-reservation boarding school, and descriptions of traditional beliefs. The second manuscript consists of Waggonerand#8217;s sixty biographies of Lakota and Dakota chiefs and headmen based on eyewitness accounts and interviews with the men themselves. Together these singular manuscripts provide new and extensive information on the history, culture, and experiences of the Lakota and Dakota peoples.
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Tears of Repentance revisits and reexamines the familiar stories of intercultural encounters between Protestant missionaries and Native peoples in southern New England from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth centuries. Focusing on Protestant missionariesand#8217; accounts of their ideals, purposes, and goals among the Native communities they served and of the religion as lived, experienced, and practiced among Christianized Indians, Julius H. Rubin offers a new way of understanding the motives and motivations of those who lived in New Englandand#8217;s early Christianized Indian village communities.
Rubin explores how Christian Indians recast Protestant theology into an Indianized quest for salvation from their worldly troubles and toward the promise of an otherworldly paradise. The Great Awakening of the eighteenth century reveals how evangelical pietism transformed religious identities and communities and gave rise to the sublime hope that New Born Indians were children of God who might effectively contest colonialism. With this dream unfulfilled, the exodus from New England to Brothertown envisioned a separatist Christian Indian commonwealth on the borderlands of America after the Revolution.
Tears of Repentance is an important contribution to American colonial and Native American history, offering new ways of examining how Native groups and individuals recast Protestant theology to restore their Native communities and cultures.
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, Indian Territory, which would eventually become the state of Oklahoma, was a multicultural space in which various Native tribes, European Americans, and African Americans were equally engaged in struggles to carve out meaningful lives in a harsh landscape. John Milton Oskison, born in the territory to a Cherokee mother and an immigrant English father, was brought up engaging in his Cherokee heritage, including its oral traditions, and appreciating the utilitarian value of an American education.
Oskison left Indian Territory to attend college and went on to have a long career in New York City journalism, working for the New York Evening Post and Collierand#8217;s Magazine. He also wrote short stories and essays for newspapers and magazines, most of which were about contemporary life in Indian Territory and depicted a complex multicultural landscape of cowboys, farmers, outlaws, and families dealing with the consequences of multiple interacting cultures.
Though Oskison was a well-known and prolific Cherokee writer, journalist, and activist, few of his works are known today. This first comprehensive collection of Oskisonand#8217;s unpublished autobiography, short stories, autobiographical essays, and essays about life in Indian Territory at the turn of the twentieth century fills a significant void in the literature and thought of a critical time and place in the history of the United States.
Synopsis
From 1886 to 1913, hundreds of Chiricahua Apache men, women, and children lived and died as prisoners of war in Florida, Alabama, and Oklahoma. Their names, faces, and lives have long been forgotten by history, and for nearly one hundred years these individuals have been nothing more than statistics in the history of the United Statesand#8217; tumultuous war against the Chiricahua Apache.
Based on extensive archival research, From Fort Marion to Fort Sill offers long-overdue documentation of the lives and fate of many of these people. This outstanding reference work provides individual biographies for hundreds of the Chiricahua Apache prisoners of war, including those originally classified as POWs in 1886, infants who lived only a few days, children removed from families and sent to Indian boarding schools, and second-generation POWs who lived well into the twenty-first century. Their biographies are often poignant and revealing, and more than 60 previously unpublished photographs give a further glimpse of their humanity.
This masterful documentary work, based on the unpublished research notes of former Fort Sill historian Gillett Griswold, at last brings to light the lives and experiences of hundreds of Chiricahua Apaches whose story has gone untold for too long.
About the Author
DR JOY PORTER is Assistant Dean of the School of Humanities at the University of Wales, Swansea, and teaches American and Native American history and literature. Her publications include To Be Indian: The Life of Iroquois-Seneca Arthur Caswell Parker (2001. Winner of American Library Association's Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title Award. She is also co-editor of The Cambridge Companion to Native American Literature (2005).DEWI IOAN BALL is part-time tutor and PhD Candidate (ABD) in the Department of American Studies at the University of Wales, Swansea. His research topic is Silent Revolution; How the Erosion of the Invented Concept 'tribe', particularly from 1973, served to nullify the Governmental Capacity of Native America.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Competing Voices on the origins of the world and "Discovery "
Chapter 2: Competing Voices on Spirituality and Faith, 1550- 1828
Chapter 3: Competing Voices on Land and the Environment
Chapter 4: Competing Voices in War and Revolution, 1650-1800s
Chapter 5: Competing Voices in the Removal Era, 1800s- 1850s
Chapter 6: Competing Voices from Three Key Events in Western Expansion
Chapter 7: Competing Voices in the Era of Assimilation and Allotment, 1887-1934
Chapter 8: Competing Voices during the Indian New Deal Era, 1928-1941
Chapter 9: Competing Voices during the Termination Era, 1945 - 1970
Chapter 10: Competing Voices from Three Key Events of the Red Power Era: Alcatraz, 1969, March on Washington, 1972 and the Occupation of the BIA Headquarters, 1972 and Wounded Knee, 1973
Chapter 11: Competing Voices on Leonard Peltier, 1977
Chapter 12: Competing Voices on Contemporary Indian Law and Jurisdiction
Chapter 13: Competing Voices on Indian Gaming
Chapter 14: Competing Voices on Indian Representation, Museums and the Repatriation of Indian Bones