Indians in American history : an introduction / / edited by Frederick E. Hoxie & Peter Iverson ; contributors, James A. Brown [and fifteen others]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460042403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Wheeling, Illinois : , : Harlan Davidson, Inc., , 1998; ©1998
• ISBN: 1-118-81870-9
• Edizione: [Second edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Disciplina: 973/.0497/0072
• Soggetti: Indians of North America - Historiography; Indians of North America - History - Study and teaching; Indians of North America - History; Electronic books.; United States Historiography; United States History Study and teaching
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Preface; Preface to the First Edition; Introduction; Chapter One: America Before Columbus; Geographic Regions; The Arctic Area; The Subarctic; The Northwest Coast; The Far West; The Southwest; The Great Plains; The Eastern Woodlands; Native North American Cultural Development; For Further Reading; Chapter Two: The Indians'' Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans; For Further Reading; Chapter Three: Indians in the Colonial Spanish Borderlands; For Further Reading; Chapter Four: Native Americans and the American Revolution: Historic Stories and Shifting Frontier Conflict Imperial Story: 1760-1774; Revolution: The Story of Conquest; Religious Revitalization: An Indian Story; Conclusion: Story and Conflict; For Further Reading; Chapter Five: Indian Tribes and the American Constitution; The Constitution, Indian Law, and the Marshall Trilogy; The Place of Indian Tribes in the Constitutional Framework; Due Process and Equal Protection; Federal ; Preemption of State Law; The Impact of Indian Law on Constitutional Law in the American West; Conclusion; For Further Reading Chapter Six: Indians in Southern History; For Further Reading; Chapter Seven: National Expansion from the Indian Perspective; For Further Reading; Chapter Eight: How the West Was Lost; For Further Reading; Chapter Nine: The Curious Story of Reformers and American Indians; For Further Reading; Chapter Ten: Modern America and the Indian; For Further Reading; Chapter Eleven: The Struggle for Indian Civil Rights; For Further Reading; Chapter Twelve: The 1970's: New Leaders for Indian Country; For Further Reading; Chapter Thirteen: The Hearts of Nations: American Indian Women in the Twentieth Century For Further Reading; Appendix; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Like its highly popular and distinctive predecessor, this new edition of Indians in American History strives to fully integrate Indians into the conventional U.S. history narrative. Meticulously reedited throughout, this beautifully illustrated book features fourteen essays by fifteen authors who speak from a variety of disciplines and perspectives.