Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-244).
Contents:
"New buffalo"? Native Americans discover Europeans -- Diversity of Native America -- Indigenous customs -- Cultures in conflict. Coexistence and conflict in the Spanish southwest -- Conflict and accommodation in the northeast -- Conflict and cooperation in the southeast -- Native Americans and the great wars for empire -- Survival strategies -- Removal and the Trail of Tears. Indian haters and sympathizers -- Missionary impulse -- "Justifying" removal -- Resistance in the courts -- Responses to removal -- Black Hawk and Seminole Wars -- Resistance on the plains. Reservation policy -- Great Sioux uprising of 1862 -- Sand Creek massacre --New directions in government policy -- Battle of the Little Big Horn -- Chief Joseph -- Ghost Dance and the Wounded Knee massacre -- Struggle for self-determination. Reforming Indian policy -- New deal for Native Americans -- From termination to self-determination -- Quest for political, cultural, and economic sovereignty. Asserting tribal sovereignty -- Asserting cultural sovereignty -- Preventing the exploitation of native American cultures -- "New buffalo"?
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