Native Voices

Mark A. Nicholas received his Ph.D from Lehigh University in 2006. He is finishing a co-edited volume for the University of North Carolina Press, a book about the Seneca Indians for Michigan State University Press and a book about the Shawnees in Kansas for University of Arizona Press.

“The three greatest strengths of this work are 1) its breadth of coverage; 2) the chapter introductions…and 3) the inclusion of images as primary sources.”-Tony Gulig, University of Wisconsin “The chapters are coherent with a good selection of [documents]; The chapters shine light on the history of North America that is relatively unknown and very interesting with great historical implications.”-Eric Mayer, Victor Valley College

• Chapter 1 History from the Native American Point of View Chapter 2 Natives and Newcomers: Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries Chapter 3 The Seventeenth Century Spanish Borderlands and Eastern Woodlands Chapter 4 The Eighteenth Century to 1763 in Times of Peace and War Chapter 5 The Indians' Revolution, 1763-1814: Across the Continent Chapter 6 A New Order and Expansion West 1820-1850 Chapter 7 Native Americans, the Civil War, and the War for the West, 1850-1877 Chapter 8 Assimilation or Extinction, 1860-1900 Chapter 9 Perseverance and Revival Chapter 10 Native Americans, the Great Depression and World War II, and the Reorganization of Indian Country, 1930-1950 Chapter 11 Resurgent Indians, 1960-1980 Chapter 12 Native Americans into the Twenty First Century