American Nations: Encounters in Indian Country, 1850 to the Present / Edition 1

by Frederick Hoxie, Peter Mancall, James Merrell

Overview

This volume brings together an impressive collection of important works covering nearly every aspect of early Native American history, from contact and exchange to diplomacy, religion, warfare, and disease.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415927505
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/15/2001
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	538
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

James Merrell is the Lucy Maynard Professor at Vassar College. His books include The Indians' New World, the winner of the Bancroft and Frederick Jackson Turner prizes, and Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Colonial Pennsylvania Frontier. Peter Mancall is Professor of History at the University of Southern California. His book, Deadly Medicine: Indians and Alcohol in Early America was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in History. Frederick Hoxie is Professor of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. His books include A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate Indians, 1880-1920 and Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in America.

Table of Contents

Part 1 Agency and Conquest 1850-1900, Part 2 Reservation Cultures 1880 -1930, Part 3 Gender and Culture Change, Part 4 Religious Innovation and Survival, Part 5 Cultural and Political Transformations 1900 -1950, Part 6 Indian Activism and Cultural Resurgence, Part 7 Perspectives on Native America 2000.

Editorial Reviews

"Twenty-three essays by academics consider the historical, cultural, religious, and political circumstances of various Native American peoples." -- Publishers Weekly
"...these essays illuminate the experiences of different Native American groups as they have maintained their unique ethnic identities while dealing with the U.S. government...this work is highly recommended for public libraries and is absolutely essential for all academic libraries supporting programs in Native American studies or American History." -- Library Journal
"The collection contains rich empirical detail about cross-cultural encounters including case studies of warfare, criminal justice, trade, music, dances, shamanism, and witchcraft that could be usefully compared to similar episodes in other settler colony histories...For scholars and teachers interested in colonialism as a historical process, the sections on reservation cultures, gender, and cultural change offer the most developed and theoretically informed contributions
-Doris E. Janiewski, for the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History."

From the Publisher

The "tale about the triumph of civilization has played a central role in shaping the American national identity," contend Frederick E. Hoxie (A Final Promise), Peter C. Mancall (Valley of Opportunity) and James H. Merrell (The Indians' New World), editors of American Nations: Encounters in Indian Country, 1850 to the Present. Twenty-three essays by academics consider the historical, cultural, religious and political circumstances of various Native American peoples. Melissa L. Meyer presents "Signatures and Thumbprints: Ethnicity Among the White Earth Anishinaabeg"; Sergei Kan explores "Shamanism and Christianity: Modern Tlingit Elders Look at the Past"; Ward Churchill discusses "The Bloody Wake of Alcatraz: Political Repression of the American Indian Movement During the 1970s"; and Terence M. Cole addresses "Jim Crow in Alsaka: The Passage of the Alsaka Equal Rights Act of 1945." (Sept. 1) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Publishers Weekly

Hoxie (Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in America, 1805-1935), Peter Mancall (Deadly Medicine: Indians & Alcohol in Early America), and James Merrell (history, Vassar Coll.; Into the American Woods: Negotiators on the Pennsylvania Frontier) have jointly edited this anthology of 23 articles, many of which were previously published in peer-reviewed scholarly journals. While not interrelated, these essays illuminate the experiences of different Native American groups as they have maintained their unique ethnic identities while dealing with the U.S. government. Especially enlightening is an essay by Ward Churchill titled "The Bloody Wake of Alcatraz: Political Repression and the American Indian Movement During the 1970s," which examines the history of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and its conflict with the U.S. government. This timely article helps put Leonard Peltier's controversial incarceration for the murder of two FBI agents into context. Like its companion volume, American Encounters: Natives and Newcomers from European Contact to Indian Removal, 1500-1850 (LJ 11/15/99), this work is highly recommended for public libraries and is absolutely essential for all academic libraries supporting programs in Native American studies or American history. John Burch, Campbellsville Univ. Lib., KY Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

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