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Subject(s)

• Indigenous peoples of North America—History—Encyclopedias [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Related name

• Johansen, Bruce E. (Bruce Elliott), 1950- [Browse]
• Pritzker, Barry [Browse]

Series

Gale virtual reference library. [More in this series]

Summary note

Covers the history of Native Americans, ranging from human origins to present-day controversies.

Notes

• Approximately 450 entries within four separate volumes.
• Approximately 110 contributors from among the foremost scholars in the fields, including Troy Johnson on self-determination movements, Richard King on sports mascots, and Jon Rehyner on recovery of Native languages.
• Hundreds of images, including illustrations, photographs, and maps.
• A series of helpful research tools rounding out the fourth volume, including an extensive chronology, topical bibliography, and a comprehensive index.
• The most up-to-date and authoritative reference work available spanning the breadth of Native American history.
• Includes an unprecedented level of coverage from the Native American perspective to balance coverage from non-Native perspectives.
• Written by a distinguished group of American Indian scholars.
• The unique format makes it easy to access reliable information on specific events, personalities, overarching issues and themes, and details of life within the numerous distinct tribes.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• v. 1. Pre-contact Indian History (ca. 20,000 BCE to ca. 1500 CE)
• Indians in the Colonial Era and the American Revolution (1500 to 1800)
• Indian Immigrants and Removals (1800 to 1850)
• Westward Expansion, Indian Wars, and Reservations (1850 to 1900)
• Indian Assimilation and Reorganization (1900 to 1945)
• Termination and Indian Sovereignty (1945 to 2000)
• Issues in American Indian History
• Alcoholism and Substance Abuse
• Archaeology and the First Americans
• Assimilation
• Bering Strait Theory
• Boarding Schools, United States and Canada
• Citizenship
• Demographics, Historical
• Disease, Historic and Contemporary
• Economic Development
• Education
• Education and Social Control
• Environment and Pollution
• Gambling
• Genocide
• Hazardous Waste
• Land, Identity and Ownership of, Land Rights
• Mining and Contemporary Environmental Problems
• Pan-Indianism
• Reservation Economic and Social Conditions
• Squaw, Debates Over Place Names
• Trade
• Treaty Diplomacy, with Summary of Selected Treaties
• Tribal Sovereignty
• Uranium Mining
• Water Rights
• Women in Native Woodlands Societies
• Events in American Indian History
• Dalles Trading Area
• L'Anse aux Meadows Viking Settlement
• Norse Exploration of North America
• Doctrine of Discovery
• Missionaries, French Jesuit
• New France and Natives
• Spanish Influence
• Pequot War
• Beaver Wars
• Pueblo Revolt
• Russians, in the Arctic/Northwest
• French and Indian War
• California Indians, Genocide of
• Mission System, Spanish
• Boston Tea Party, Mohawk Images
• American Revolution, Native American Participation
• Goschochking (Ohio) Massacre of 1782
• Fallen Timbers, Battle of
• Creek War
• Seminole Wars
• Black Hawk's War
• Trail of Tears
• Oregon Trail
• Yakama War
• Great Sioux Uprising
• Long Walk (Navajo)
• Sand Creek Massacre
• Alaska, United States Purchase of
• Baptist Church
• Washita Massacre
• Grant's Peace Policy
• Camp Grant Massacre
• Apache Wars
• Battle of the Little Bighorn
• Long March (Nez Percé)
• General Allotment Act (Dawes Act)
• Wounded Knee, South Dakota, Massacre at
• Relocation
• Occupation of Alcatraz Island
• Red Power Movement
• Trail of Broken Treaties
• Pine Ridge Political Murders
• Occupation of Wounded Knee
• Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute
• Ward Valley, Hazardous Waste Controversy.
• v. 2. Culture and American Indian History
• Adena Civilization
• African Americans
• Agriculture
• American Indian Contributions to the World
• Ancestral Puebloan Culture
• Anglicans
• Athapaskan Languages
• Athapaskan Peoples
• Basketry
• Beadwork
• Berdaches
• Black Hills (Paha Sapa)
• Black Seminoles
• Blue Lake, New Mexico
• Bole-Maru Religion
• Buffalo
• Cahokia
• Cannibalism
• Canoes
• Captivity Narrative
• Ceremonies, Criminalization of
• Code Talkers, Navajo
• Confederacies
• Counting Coup
• Dams, Fishing Rights, and Hydroelectric Power
• Democracy and Native American Images among Europeans
• Diabetes
• Dreamer Cult
• False Face Society
• Feminism, Native American Influences
• Fishing Rights
• Fur Trade
• Ghost Dance Religion
• Graham, Mount (Dzil Nchaa Si An), Controversy over
• Hohokam Culture
• Hopewell Culture
• Horse, Economic Impact
• Humor, as Value
• Identity
• Indian Shaker Movement
• Iroquois Great Law of Peace (Kaianerekowa)
• Katsinas
• Kennewick Man
• Lacrosse
• Language and Language Renewal
• Language, Written in America, Pre-contact
• Longhouse Religion
• Mascots
• Mississippian Culture
• Mogollon Culture
• Mound Cultures of North America
• Muskogean Language
• Myth of the Noble Savage
• Na-Dene Peoples
• Natchez Culture
• New Agers, "Indian" Ceremonies and
• Ohio Valley Mound Culture
• Osage, and Oil Rights
• Paleo-Indians
• Pipes, Sacred
• Potlatch
• Pottery
• Sacred Sites
• Salmon, Economic and Spiritual Significance of
• Scalping in the Colonial Period
• Seven Drums Religion
• Slavery and Native Americans
• State Names, Native American Derivations
• Sun Dance
• Sweat Lodges
• Thanksgiving Holiday, Origins
• Totem Poles
• Wakashan Languages
• Wampum
• Warfare, Intertribal
• Weaving
• Worldviews and Values
• Government and American Indian History
• Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act
• Albany Congress, Native Precedents
• American Indian Religious Freedom Act
• Bureau of American Ethnology
• Bureau of Indian Affairs: Establishing the Existence of an Indian Tribe
• Canada, Indian Policies of
• Canandaigua (Pickering) Treaty
• Carlisle Treaty Council
• Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
• Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission
• Constitution Act
• Cree-Naskapi Act
• Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development
• Domestic Dependent Nation
• Elk v. Wilkins
• Factory System
• Fletcher v. Peck
• Forced Marches
• Fort Laramie Treaty (1868)
• Hawai'i, Legal Status of Native Claims
• Hudson's Bay Company
• Indian Act
• Indian Civil Rights Act (1968)
• Indian Civilization Fund Act
• Indian Claims Commission
• Indian Gaming Regulatory Act
• Indian Mineral Leasing Act
• Indian Removal Act
• Indian Reorganization Act
• Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act
• Individual Indian Monies
• James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement
• Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Treaty Councils
• Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock
• Lyng v. Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association
• Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act
• Meriam Report
• Métis Nation Accord
• National Indian Gaming Commission
• Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
• North West Company
• Northwest Ordinance (1787)
• Nunavut Land Claims Agreement
• Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe
• Plenary Power
• Praying Villages of Massachusetts
• Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe v. Morton
• Radiation Exposure Compensation Act
• Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples
• Standing Bear v. Crook
• Tee-Hit-Ton v. United States
• Termination
• Trade and Intercourse Acts
• Tribal Courts
• Trust, Doctrine of
• Tungavik Federation, Nunavut
• United Nations, Indians and
• United States v. Dann
• United States v. Kagama
• Wardship Doctrine
• Winters v. United States
• Worcester v. Georgia.
• v. 3. People and Groups in American Indian History
• Aboriginal Peoples Television Network
• Akwesasne Freedom School
• Akwesasne Notes
• Alaska Native Brotherhood
• All Indian Pueblo Council
• American Indian Higher Education Consortium
• American Indian Movement
• Anderson, Wallace Mad Bear
• Anishinabe Algonquin National Council
• Apess, William
• Aquash, Anna Mae Pictou
• Assembly of First Nations
• Banderas, Juan de la Cruz
• Banks, Dennis
• Bearskin, Leaford
• Black Elk
• Blackfeet Confederacy
• Black Hawk
• Black Kettle
• Boas, Franz
• Bonnin, Gertrude Simmons
• Brant, Joseph
• Campbell, Ben Nighthorse
• Canassatego
• Canonicus
• Captain Jack
• Carson, Christopher "Kit"
• Casas, Bartolome de las
• Catlin, George
• Cherokee Phoenix and Indian Advocate
• Clark, George Rogers
• Cochise
• Cody, William Frederick
• Cohen, Felix
• Collier, John
• Coon Come, Matthew
• Cooper, James Fenimore
• Copway, George
• Cornplanter
• Costo, Rupert
• Council of Energy Resource Tribes
• Crazy Horse
• Crook, George
• Cruz, Joseph de la
• Curtis, Charles
• Deganawidah
• Deloria, Jr., Vine
• Deskaheh
• Dodge, Henry Chee
• Dull Knife
• Dumont, Gabriel
• EchoHawk, Larry
• Edwards, J.R.
• Eliot, John
• Emathla, Charley
• Engels, Friedrich and the "Mother-right gens"
• Episcopal Church
• Erasmus, George Henry
• Erdrich, Louise
• Erickson, Leif
• Eskiminzin
• Franklin, Benjamin, Native American Influences
• Geronimo
• Gorman, R.C.
• Great Lakes Intertribal Council
• Handsome Lake
• Harjo, Chitto
• Harjo, Joy
• Harrison, William Henry
• Haudenosaunee Confederacy, Political System
• Hendrick
• Hiawatha
• Hooker Jim
• Jackson, Andrew
• Jackson, Helen Hunt
• Jigonsaseh
• Johnson, Emily Pauline
• Johnson, William
• Joseph, Younger
• Kicking Bird
• LaDuke, Winona
• LaFlesche, Susan Picotte
• LaFlesche, Susette Tibbles
• Leupp, Francis Ellington
• Little Crow
• Little Turtle
• Louis, Adrian
• Luna, James Alexander
• Lyons, Oren
• MacDonald, Peter
• Major Ridge
• Mangas Coloradas
• Mankiller, Wilma
• Manuelito
• Marx, Karl, and Native American Societies
• Massasoit
• McNickle, D'Arcy
• Means, Russell
• Metacom, and King Philip's War
• Mills, William M.
• Mohawk, John C.
• Momaday, N. Scott
• Montezuma
• Mormon Church
• National Congress of American Indians
• National Indian Youth Council
• National Museum of the American Indian
• Native American Church of North America
• Native American Museums
• Neolin (Delaware Prophet)
• Oakes, Richard
• Ortiz, Simon J.
• Osceola
• Ouray
• Owens, Louis
• Parker, Arthur C.
• Parker, Ely
• Parker, Quanah
• Peltier, Leonard
• Penn, William, Quakers, and Native Americans
• Plenty Coups
• Pocahontas
• Pontiac
• Powhatan
• Red Cloud
• Red Jacket
• Riel, Louis
• Rogers, Will
• Rose, Wendy
• Ross, John
• Sacagawea or Sakakawea
• Scholder, Fritz
• Seattle
• Sequoyah
• Sitting Bull
• Smith, John
• Smohalla
• Society of American Indians
• Sohappy, Sr., David
• Spotted Tail
• Squanto
• St. Clair, Arthur
• Standing Bear (Ponca); Standing Bear v. Crook (1879)
• Standing Bear, Luther
• Sullivan, General John and the Haudenosaunee Holocaust of 1779
• Tammany Society
• Tecumseh
• Tekakwitha, Kateri
• Tenskwatawa
• Thorpe, Jim
• Tribal Colleges
• Uncas
• Victorio
• Warrior, Clyde
• Washakie
• Watie, Stand
• Welch, James
• Whitman, Marcus and Narcissa
• Williams, Roger
• Wilson, Richard
• Winnemucca
• Winnemucca, Sarah
• Women of All Red Nations
• Wovoka
• Primary Source Documente
• Iroquois Great Law of Peace
• Christopher Columbus: Journal
• Powhatan: Remarks to Captain John Smith
• Massasoit Peace Treaty
• John Mason: A Brief History of the Pequot War
• William Johnson: Report Regarding the Iroquois Confederacy
• Pontiac: Reasons for Making War on the English Speech
• The Royal Proclamation of 7 October 1763
• Fort Stanwix Treaty
• Northwest Ordinance
• Lewis and Clark Expedition: Journals
• Tenskwataya (The Prophet): System of Religion Speech (1808)
• Tecumseh: Speech to Governor William Henry Harrison
• Johnson v. M'Intosh
• Worcester v. Georgia
• Andrew Jackson: Indian Removal Message to Congress
• Cherokee Nation Memorial
• Black Hawk: Surrender Speech
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Treaty of Fort Laramie
• Chief Sea'th'l's Farewell Speech
• Sand Creek Massacre: Report of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
• Treaty with the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache
• Treaty with the Navajo
• Canadian Treaties Numbers 1 through 11
• Two Moon: Account of the Battle of the Little Bighorn
• Chief Joseph: I Will Fight No More Forever Speech
• Helen Hunt Jackson: A Century of Dishonor
• Ex Parte Crow Dog
• William T. Sherman: Report on the End of the Indian Problem
• Sitting Bull: Speech on Keeping Treaties (1890)
• Wounded Knee Massacre: Testimony of the Sioux (1890)
• Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1902)
• Geronimo: His Own Story (1906)
• Winters v. United States (1908)
• Indian Citizenship Act (1924)
• Meriam Report (1928)
• Wheeler Howard (Indian Reorganization) Act (1934)
• House Concurrent Resolution 108 (1953)
• Public Law 280 (1953)
• Alcatraz Proclamation: A Proclamation from the Indians of All Tribes (1969)
• Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (1971)
• American Indian Movement: Three-Point Program (1973)
• Boldt Decision (1974)
• Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (1975)
• Oliphant v. Suquamish Indian Tribe (1978)
• California v. Cabazon Band of Mission Indians (1987)
• Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (1990)
• Native American Languages Act (1990)
• United States of America v. Robert Lawrence Boyll (1991)
• Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act (1993)
• Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute Settlement Act of 1996
• Delgamuukw v. British Columbia (1997).
• v. 4. Native Americans of the Southwest
• Acoma Pueblo
• Apache, Chiricahua
• Apache, Jicarilla
• Apache, Lipan
• Apache, Mescalero
• Apache, Western
• Chemehuevi
• Cochiti Pueblo
• Cocopah
• Havasupai
• Hopi
• Hopi-Tewa
• Hualapai
• Isleta Pueblo
• Jemez Pueblo
• Laguna Pueblo
• Mojave or Mohave
• Nambé Pueblo
• Navajo (Dine'é)
• Pee-Posh
• Picuris Pueblo
• Pima
• Pojoaque Pueblo
• Quechan
• Sandia Pueblo
• San Felipe Pueblo
• San Ildefonso Pueblo
• San Juan Pueblo
• Santa Ana Pueblo
• Santa Clara Pueblo
• Santo Domingo Pueblo
• Taos Pueblo
• Tesuque Pueblo
• Tigua
• Tohono O'odham
• Yaqui
• Yavapai
• Zia Pueblo
• Zuni
• Native Americans of California
• Achumawi
• Cahto
• Cahuilla
• Chumash
• Costanoan
• Cupeño
• Hupa
• Karuk
• Luiseño
• Maidu
• Miwok
• Mono
• Pomo
• Salinan
• Serrano
• Shasta
• Tipai-Ipai
• Tolowa
• Tubatulabal
• Wailaki
• Wintun
• Wiyot
• Yana
• Yokuts
• Yurok
• Native Americans of the Northwest Coast
• Bella Bella
• Bella Coola
• Chinook
• Coosans
• Haida
• Kwakiutl
• Makah
• Nootkans
• Quileute
• Salish, Central Coast
• Salish, Northern Coast
• Salish, Southern Coast
• Salish, Southwestern Coast
• Tillamook
• Tlingit
• Tsimshian
• Upper Umpqua
• Native Americans of the Great Basin
• Paiute, Northern
• Paiute, Owens Valley
• Paiute, Southern
• Shoshone, Eastern or Wind River
• Shoshone, Northern
• Shoshone, Western
• Ute
• Washoe
• Native Americans of the Plateau
• Cayuse
• Coeur d'Alene
• Colville
• Kalispel
• Klamath
• Klikitat
• Kootenai
• Lillooet
• Modoc
• Nez Percé
• Okanagon
• Salish
• Sanpoil
• Shuswap
• Sinkiuse
• Spokan
• Thompson
• Umatilla
• Wishram
• Yakima (Yakama)
• Native Americans of the Great Plains
• Apache, Plains
• Arapaho
• Arikara
• Assiniboine
• Blackfeet
• Cheyenne
• Comanche
• Cree, Plains
• Crow
• Dakota
• Gros Ventres
• Hidatsa
• Ioway
• Kaw
• Kiowa
• Lakota
• Mandan
• Missouria
• Nakota
• Ojibwa, Plains
• Omaha
• Osage
• Otoe
• Pawnee
• Ponca
• Quapaw
• Tonkawa
• Wichita
• Native Americans of the Southeast
• Alabama
• Caddo
• Catawba
• Cherokee
• Chickasaw
• Chitimacha
• Choctaw
• Creek
• Houma
• Lumbee
• Natchez
• Seminole
• Tunica
• Tuscarora
• Yuchi
• Native Americans of the Northeast Woodlands
• Abenaki
• Algonquin
• Anishinabe
• Cayuga
• Fox
• Illinois
• Kickapoo
• Lenápe
• Mahican
• Maliseet
• Menominee
• Miami
• Micmac
• Mohawk
• Nanticoke
• Narragansett
• Oneida
• Onondaga
• Ottawa
• Passamaquoddy
• Penobscot
• Pequot
• Potawatomi
• Sauk
• Seneca
• Shawnee
• Wampanoag
• Winnebago
• Wyandotte
• Native Americans of the Subarctic
• Beaver
• Carrier
• Chilcotin
• Chipewyan
• Cree
• Dogrib
• Gwich'in
• Hare
• Ingalik
• Kaska
• Naskapi/Montagnais
• Sekani
• Slavey
• Tahltan
• Tanaina
• Native Americans of the Arctic
• Alutiiq
• Iglulik
• Inuit, Baffinland
• Inuit, Caribou
• Inuit, Copper
• Inuit, Labrador or Ungava
• Inupiat
• Inuvialuit
• Netsilik
• Unangan
• Yup'ik
• Discontinued Indian Mascots, 1969-2002
• Indian Mascots
• Tribal Governments in the United States, 2006
• Largest Tribes in the United States, 1980-2000
• National Indian Organizations
• American Indian Population 1860-1990
• Poverty on American Indian Reservations and Trust Lands
• Native American Terminated Tribes, 1955-1969
• Canadian First Nations
• Heads of Indian Affairs, 1824-2007
• Native American Treaties with the United States, 1778-1883.

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ISBN

• 9798400610998
• 9786610956272
• 9781280956270
• 1280956275
• 9781851098187
• 1851098186

LCCN

2007011970

OCLC

• 173835009
• 1309420328

Doi

10.5040/9798400610998

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