Epilogue: A closing note from the author Introduction: A note from Doug Kiel -- Part 1: Knowledge -- Chapter 1: The Haudenosaunee Confederacy -- Chapter 2: The story of the Great Peacemaker -- Chapter 3: The three sisters and the origin of maize -- Chapter 4: Cahokia: an ancient city -- Chapter 5: Power in the past -- Part 2: Myths -- Chapter 6: Myths, stereotypes, and tropes, about Indigenous People -- Part 3: Erasure -- Chapter 7: Disease, war, and mass murder -- Chapter 8: An American genocide -- Chapter 9: Native land, the Cherokee Nation, and the Trail of Tears -- Chapter 10: The Dakota Uprising and the Ghost Dance at Wounded Knee -- Chapter 11: Native American boarding schools -- Part 4: Resilience -- Chapter 12: The rise of the American Indian Movement (AIM) -- Chapter 13: Land activism and environmentalism -- Chapter 14: Indigenous musicians and storytellers -- Epilogue: A closing note from the author
Summary:
"American schoolchildren have long been taught that their country was 'discovered' by Christopher Columbus in 1492. But the history of Native Americans in the United States goes back tens of tens of thousands of years prior to Columbus's and other colonizers' arrivals. So, what's the true history?"-- Provided by publisher
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