About the Book
"The Native American World" fills the long-standing need for a single-volume popular reference on all aspects of Native American life, from prehistoric times to the present day. Combining solid scholarship with a popular, compelling writing style, author Donna Hightower-Langston, over the course of 350 entries, covers 200 tribal groups, and every important war, law, declaration, reservation, religious rite, technology, leader, agency, organization, and cultural creation. She also includes nearly 100 "In Their Own Words" eyewitness accounts of Native American life throughout history and 100 illustrations, including vintage photographs, maps, and drawings. For ease of reference, "The Native American World" is organized into four sections corresponding to Culture, Individuals, Nations, and Politics and Post-Contact History.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments. Introduction. PART I: CULTURE. Adena (mound building) culture. Agricultural Period. Anasazi. Ancient Peoples. Archaic Period. Atlatl or Spear thrower. Basket Makers. Beads. Beringa. Buffalo. Clovis Spear--Pint Culture. Desert--Cochise Culture. Folsom Spear--Point Culture (Spear Throwing). Formative Period. Ghost Dance Movement. Hohakam Culture. Hopewell Culture. Horse. Medicine. Mississippian culture. Mogollon Culture. Native American Church. Norse. Old Copper Culture. Old Cordilleran Culture. Paleo--Indian Period. Plano (Plainview) Spear--Point Culture. Potlatch. Pottery Making. Poverty Point Culture. Pueblo. Red Paint People. Sandia Spear--Point Culture. Totem Poles. Vision Quest. Woodland Cultures. PART II: INDIVIDUALS. Aquash, Anna Mae. Bank, Dennis. Big Foot (Spotted Elk) Brandt, Joseph. Captain Jack. Chief Joseph (Joseph Younger, Hinmaton Yalatik, Hin--Mah--Too--Yah--Laht--Ket). Chisholm, Jesse. Cochise. Columbus, Christopher. Crazy Horse (tashunka Witco). Curtis, Charles. Deer, Ada. Deganawida. Deloria, Ella Cara. Deloria, Vine, Jr. Deskaheh (Levi General). Dull Knife. Franklin, Benjamin. Geronimo. Handsome Lake (Ganeodiyo). Hiawatha. LaDuke, Winona. LaFlesche Picotte, Susan. Mangas Coloradas. Mankiller, Wilma (A--ji--luhsgi, Asgaya--dihi (Flower and protector og the village)). Manuelito. McCloud, Janet. Means, Russell. Momanday, Navarre Scott. Parker, Ely Samuel (Deioninohogawen, Donehogawa; Ha--sa--no--an--da). Peltier, Leonard. Pochahontas. Pontiac. Pretty--Shield. Red Cloud (Mahpiua Luta, Mkhpia--sha, Makhpiya--Luta (Scarlet Cloud)). Sequoyah (George Gist, George Guess, George Guest; Sequoia, Siwayi, Sogwili (Principal bird, Sparrow)). Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake, Tatanka Iyotank, Tatanka Yotanka). Squanto (Tisquantum). Standing Bear (Mo--Chu--No--Zhi, Mochunozhi). Tecumseh (Tecumtha). Thorpe, Grace. Thorpe, Jim Francis. Victorio (Beduiat, Bidu--Ya). Ward, Nancy (Nanye--Hi, "One Who Goes About," Tsistunga--gis--ke, "Wild Rose"). Winnemucca, Sarah Hopkins (Sally Winnemucca; Thocmetone, Thoc--me--tony (Shell Flower)). Wovoka (Jack Wilson). Yellow Thunder, Raymond. PART III: NATIONS. Abenaki. Achumawi. Alabama--Coushatta. Aleut (see Alutiiq). Algonquin. Alutiiq. Anishinabe. Apache. Arapaho. Arikara. Assiniboine. Beaver. Bella Bella. Bella Coola. Beothuk. Blackfeet. Caddo. Cahuilla. Carrier. Catawba. Cayuga. Cayuse. Chemehuevi. Cherokee. Cheyenne. Chickasaw. Chilcotin. Chinook. Chipewayn. Chitimacha. Choctaw. Chumash. Cocopa. Coeur d' Alene. Colville. Comanche. Coosan. Costanoan. Cree. Creek. Crow. Dakota. Dograib. Gros Ventre. Haida. Hare. Havasupai. Hidatsa. Hopi. Houma. Hualapai. Hupa. Iglulik. Illinois. Ingalik. Inuit. Inupiat. Ioway. Iroquois. Kalispel. Karuk. Kaw. Kickapoo. Kiowa. Klamath. Klikitat. Kootenai. Kutchin. Kwakiutl. Lakota. Lenape. Lillooet. Luiseno. Lumbee. Maidu. Makah. Maliseet. Mandan. Menominee. Mesquakie (Fox). Miami. Micmac. Missouria. Modoc. Mohawk. Mojave. Mono. Nakota. Nanticoke. Narragansett. Naskapi--Montagnais. Natchez. Navajo. Nez Perce. Nootka. Ojibwa (see Anishinabe). Okanagon. Omaha. Oneida. Onondaga. Osage. Otoe. Ottawa. Paiute. Passamaquoddy. Pawnee. Pee Posh. Penobscot. Pequot. Pima. Pomo. Ponca. Potawatomi. Powhatan. Pueblos. Quapaw. Quechan (see Yuma). Quileute. Salish. Sanpoil. Seminole. Seneca. Shasta. Shawnee. Shoshone. Shuswap. Sinkiuse. Spokan. Tillamook. Tipai--Ipai. Tlingit. Tohono O'oodham. Tonkawa. Tsimushian. Tubatulabal. Tunica. Tuscarora. Umatilla. Upper Umpaqua. Ute. Wailaki. Wampanoag. Wichita. Wintun. Wishram. Wiyot. Wyandotte/Huron. Yakama. Yaqui. Yokuts. Yuchi. Yuma. Yurok. Zuni. PART IV: POLITICS AND POST--CONTACT HISTORY. Alaska Federation of Natives. Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Alcatraz Island Occupation. All--Indian Pueblo Council. allotment (see Dawes Act). American Indian Charter Convention. American Indian Defense Association. American Indian Movement. American Indian Policy Review Committee. American Indian Religious Freedom Act. American Revolution. Articles of Confederation. Assimilative Crimes Act. Bacon's Rebellion. Bannock Conflict. Bascom Affair. Black Hawk Conflict (Black Hawk War). Buffalo Head Nickel. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Bureau of Indian Affairs Adult Vocational Training Schools. Burial Grounds. Burke Act. Canada's Office of Native Claims. Canadian Indian Act. Canadaian White Paper. Carlisle Indian School. Cheyene Arapaho War (See Sand Creek Massacre). Citizenship Act. Civil Rights Act 1964. Civil War. Coeur a'Alene Conflict (Coeur d'Alene War). Commission on Indian Reservation Economics. Committee of One Hundred. Constitution. Council of Energy Resource Tribes. Dawes Act. Diseases. Dutch West Indian Company. Educational Funding. Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Everglades Reclamation Policy. Factory System. Fishing Rights. Five Civilized Tribes. Forced Patent Period. French and Indian Wars. Gold. Grant's Peace Policy. Gratten Affair. Hancock Campaign. Hollywood. Homestead Act. Hudson's Bay Company. Indian Appropriations Act. Indian Arts and Crafts Board. Indian Child Welfare Act. Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968. Indian Claims Commission. Indian Country. Indian Education Act. Indian Gaming Act. Indian Health Services. Indian Removal Act. Indian Reorganization Act (see Wheeler--Howard Act). Indian Resources Development Act. Indian Self--Determination Act. Indian Territory. Inter--American Conference on Indian Life. International Indian Treaty Council. Iroquois League of Nations. Josephy Report. King George's War. King Phillip's War. King William's War. Lake Mohonk Conference. Little Turtle's War. Long Walk. Longest Walk to Washington, D.C. Louisiana Purchase. Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act. Mariposa Conflict. Meriam Report. Mexican Kickapoo Uprising. Missionaries. Modoc Conflict. Mohawk Blockade. Mormons. National Congress of American Indians. National Council of American Indians. National Indian Youth Council. Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center. Navajo Community College. Navajo Hopi Land Settlement Act. Nootka Convention. Northwest Ordinance. Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act. Paxton Riots. Pequot Conflict. Pilgrims. Pontiac's Rebellion. Public Law 280. Queen Anne's War. Reclamation Act. Relocation Program. Removal Policy. Reservations. Riel Rebellion. Russian American Fur Company. Sand Creek Massacre (Cheyenne--Arapaho War). Seminole Uprisings. Senate Investigating Committee on Indian Affairs. Sheepeater Conflict. Snake Conflict. Snyder Act (see Citizenship Act). Termination Policy. Tippecanoe. Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan. Trail of Tears. Treaty of Medicine Lodge. Tribal Police. Tuscarora Conflict. United States Commission on Civil Rights. Ute Conflict. Walla Walla Council. War for the Bozeman Trail. Water Rights. Wheeler--Howard Act (Indian Reorganization Act). Women of All Red Nations. Wounded Knee Massacre. Wounded Knee Occupation. Yamasee Conflict. Bibliography.
About the Author :
DONNA HIGHTOWER--LANGSTON, Ph.D., is Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Colorado, Denver. A former Fulbright scholar, she is also a recipient of the Loft Creative Nonfiction Award. A tribally enrolled Cherokee, Hightower--Langston teaches courses on American Indian Nations, Indigenous Peoples of the Twenty--First Century, and American Indian Women. She has published numerous articles in journals and is a regular speaker at conferences.
