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The history of indigenous peoples in North America is long and complex. Many scholarly accounts now rely on statistical data to reconstruct this past, but amid all the facts and figures, it is easy to lose sight of the human side of the story. How did Native people express their thoughts and feelings, and what sources of strength did they rely on to persevere through centuries of change? In this engaging narrative, acclaimed historian R. David...

This volume profiles American Indian men and women who played a significant role in the affairs of their communities and of the nation over the course of the 20th century.

This is the saga of the Fox (or Mesquakie) Indians' struggle to maintain their identity in the face of colonial New France during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. The Foxes occupied central Wisconsin, where for a long time they had warred with the Sioux and, more recently, had opposed the extension of the French firearm-and-fur trade with their western enemies. Caught between the Sioux anvil and the French hammer, the Fo...

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Presents a chronological and ethnographic narrative that surveys American Indian history, from the arrival of humans on the American continent. This text describes how the European invasion influenced American Indian communities, but also how Native actions have affected the American environment.

Presents a chronological and ethnographic narrative that surveys American Indian history, from the arrival of humans on the American continent. This text describes how the European invasion influenced American Indian communities, but also how Native actions have affected the American environment.

Throughout history, Indian leaders and their methods of leadership have both perplexed and fascinated other Americans. Because war chiefs played leading roles in the confrontations with whites, it is they who most often emerge from the pages of history. But there were many other leaders who sought security for their tribesmen in accommodation or friendship with the Anglo-Americans. Indeed, as the twelve subjects whose careers are examined in t...

..".will stand as the standard bibliography of Potawatomi history in this century."--MISSOURI HISTORICAL REVIEW

In the early 1800s, when control of the Old Northwest had not yet been assured to the United States, the Shawnee leaders Tecumseh and his brother Tenskwatawa, the Shawnee Prophet, led an intertribal movement culminating at the Battle of Tippecanoe and the Battle of the Thames. Historians have portrayed Tecumseh, the war leader, as the key figure in forging the intertribal confederacy. In this full-length biography of Tenskwatawa, R. David Edmu...

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Diverse perspectives on midwestern Native American communities

Diverse perspectives on midwestern Native American communities

The Potawatomi Indians were the dominant tribe in the region of Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, and southern Michigan during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Active participants in the fur trade, and close friends with many French fur traders and government leaders, the Potawatomis remained loyal to New France throughout the colonial period, resisting the lure of the inexpensive British trade goods that enticed some of their neigh...

An indispensable introduction to the rich variety of Native leadership in the modern era, "The New Warriors" profiles Native men and women who have played a significant role in the affairs of their communities and of the nation over the course of the twentieth century. The leaders showcased include the early-twentieth-century writer and activist Zitkala-Sa, American Indian Movement leader Russell Means, political activists Ada Deer and LaDonna...