Companion to American Indian History

Philip J. Deloria is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. A member of a prominent Dakota family, he received his PhD from Yale University in 1994. In addition to numerous articles and essays, he is the author of Playing Indian (1998).Neal Salisbury is Professor of History at Smith College. He is the author of Manitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England (1982), and co-author of The Enduring Vision: A History of the American People (fourth edition, 2000).

"Philip Deloria and Neal Salisbury have brought together some of the best scholars writing about American Indian peoples and given them topics that both reflect and expand the new scholarship on Indian history and culture. The volume is a virtual compass for readers and scholars interested in American Indians." Richard White, Stanford University "If you need to know where the practice of American Indian history has been; better yet, if you need and want to catch up with where it's going, you will need A Companion to American Indian History. Each essay, in its own right, gives an important stylistic and substantive shove to the new writing of American Indian history while it offers the latest, best word in dutiful exegetical historiography. The Companion is the bridge-building, critical, enlightened, reflexive work the editors hoped for, and more, since its bridge-dynamiting challenges to Indian history are graceful and graciously delivered." Rayna Green, National Museum of American History. "Historians are exceedingly well served by this companion on Native peoples of the USA, north-western Mexico, Canada and Western Greenland." Antiquity "This volume testifies to the strength and comprehensiveness of the "Blackwell Companions to American History" series... The selection of writers and topics is excellent, and the quality of the historiographical essays matches or supersedes the spate of recently published books that have attempted similar tasks... The essays go beyond a mere listing of sources to intelligently integrate shifts in interpretation over time and to indicate weaknesses in the existing canon of knowledge. Academic researchers, general readers, and members of Native American communities can all profit from these sophisticated essays... this reference work deserves a place in all libraries, and it should be widely used to spaark further debate." Choice "I heartily endorse this anthology as a textbook for graduate and undergraduate classes, and as a refresher for anyone seriously interested in Native American studies." John H. Moore, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

• List of Contributors viiIntroduction 11 Historiography 6Philip J. DeloriaPart One: Contacts 252 First Contacts 27John E. Kicza3 Wag the Imperial Dog: Indians and Overseas Empires in North America, 1650–1776 46Gregory Evans Dowd4 Health, Disease, and Demography 68Russell ThorntonPart Two: Native Practice and Belief 855 Native American Systems of Knowledge 87Clara Sue Kidwell6 Native American Spirituality: History, Theory, and Reformulation 103Lee Irwin7 Indians and Christianity 121Willard Hughes Rollings8 Kinship, Family Kindreds, and Community 139Jay Miller9 American Indian Warfare: The Cycles of Conflict and the Militarization of Native North America 154Tom HolmPart Three: Language, Identity, and Expression 17310 Languages: Linguistic Change and the Study of Indian Languages from Colonial Times to the Present 175Regna Darnell11 Performative Traditions in American Indian History 193L. G. Moses12 Indigenous Art: Creating Value and Sharing Beauty 209Nancy Parezo13 Native American Literatures 234P. Jane Hafen14 Wanted: More Histories of Indian Identity 248Alexandra HarmonPart Four: Exchange and Social Relations 26715 Labor and Exchange in American Indian History 269Patricia Albers16 The Nature of Conquest: Indians, Americans, and Environmental History 287Louis S. Warren17 Gender in Native America 307Betty Bell18 Métis, Mestizo, and Mixed-Blood 321Jennifer Brown and Theresa Schenck19 Transforming Outsiders: Captivity, Adoption, and Slavery Reconsidered 339Pauline Turner Strong20 Translation and Cultural Brokerage 357Eric HinderakerPart Five: Governmental Relations 37721 Federal and State Policies and American Indians 379Donald Fixico22 Native Americans and the United States, Canada, and Mexico 397R. David Edmunds23 American Indian Education: by Indians versus for Indians 422K. Tsianina Lomawaima24 Indian Law, Sovereignty, and State Law: Native People and the Law 441Sidney L. Harring25 Sovereignty 460Taiaiake AlfredBibliography 475Index 495