Nancy Shoemaker is Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century (1999), and editor of Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women (1995). She has also published articles on American Indian history in The American Historical Review, The Western Historical Quarterly, and The Journal of Women's History.

"Pairing well-chosen primary sources with the best in contemporary scholarship, Nancy Shoemaker has devised an extraordinary book. Using treaty speeches, government documents, memoirs, and oral history, she matches Native voices with those of colonizers, bureaucrats, and historians. Lively and accessible introductions frame questions of method, evidence, historiography and analysis, making American Indians a compelling classroom book." Philip Deloria, University of Colorado.

• Series Editor's Preface viiiIntroduction 1Part I: Ancient America 11Introduction 11Article: The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans Neal Salisbury 12Documents 30   Nanih Waiya, The Sacred Mound of the Choctaws 30H. S. HalbertLegend of Nanih Wayah 39Muriel Hazel WrightFurther Reading 45Part II: First Encounters 46Introduction 46Article: The Anglo-Algonquian Gender Frontier 48Kathleen M. BrownDocuments 63Castañeda's History of the Expedition 64Pedro de Castañeda of NáxeraVoyages of Samuel de Champlain, 1604-1618 71Samuel de ChamplainFurther Reading 77Part III: International Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange 78Introduction 78Article: Dressing for Success on the Mohawk Frontier: Hendrick, William Johnson, and the Indian Fashion: Timothy J. Shannon 79Documents 103Excerpts from the Treaty of Lancaster, 1744 104Witham Marshe's Journal of the Treaty Held with the Six Nations by the Commissioners of Maryland, and Other Provinces, at Lancaster 114Further Reading 127Part IV: Cherokee Removal 128Introduction 128Article: Evidence of Surplus Production in the Cherokee Nation Prior to Removal David M. Wishart 130Documents 148Excerpts from Census Roll, 1835, of the Cherokee Indians East of the Mississippi 150Three excerpts from The Cherokee Phoenix 152Further Reading 160Part V: Sacred Places 162Introduction 162Article: The Sacred Black Hills: An Ethnohistorical Review 164Linea SundstromDocuments 191Land of the Spotted Eagle: Luther Standing Bear 191The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt: Raymond J. DeMallie 200Further Reading 207Part VI: Boarding Schools 208Introduction 208Article: "Hm! White Boy! You Got No Business Here!" 209K. Tsianina Lomawaima.Documents 235Supplemental Report on Indian Education 235Thomas J. MorganEducation of the American Indian: Henry Roe Cloud 240Further Reading 245Part VII: Red Power 247Introduction 247Article: Remembering Alcatraz: Twenty-five Years After: Troy Johnson and Joane Nagel 248Documents 259Alcatraz, Activism, and Accommodation 260Vine Deloria, JrMankiller: A Chief and Her People 267Wilma Mankiller and Michael WallisFurther Reading 278Index 279