American Indian History

Camilla Townsend is Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America (2000), Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma (2004) and Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico (2006).

• Series Editors’ Preface viiiAcknowledgments xIntroduction 1Chapter 1 Indian Ways 91 Maya Glyphs at Piedras Negras 92 Ancient Nahuatl Prayers from the Florentine Codex 123 Pueblo Bonito of Chaco Canyon 144 Images of Secotan 175 Two Versions of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Creation Story 21Chapter 2 First Contact 271 Arrival of the Spaniards in the Annals of Tlatelolco 272 Response to the Spanish by Native Priests 293 Don Luis Travels the World 314 The Arrival of the Dutch at Manhattan in Native Memory 33Chapter 3 The Expectations of the Strangers 391 Christopher Columbus’s Journal 392 Cabeza de Vaca’s Experiences in North America 413 Thomas Harriot’s Observations at Roanoke 434 John Smith’s Visit to Werowocomoco 445 Edward Waterhouse’s Report on the Events of 1622 46Chapter 4 The Long Struggle for American Lands 501 A Jesuit’s Story of the 1639 Smallpox Epidemic 502 Gandeaktena’s Decision to Become a Christian 523 Metacom’s Grievances 554 Mary Rowlandson’s Narrative 575 The Declaration of a Rebellious Christian Indian in the Pueblo Revolt 61Chapter 5 Eighteenth-Century Power Shifts 641 The Refusal of Some English Prisoners to Return to English Life 642 The Abenakis’ Forceful Statement to the English 683 The Chickasaws’ Political Vision in 1723 724 Sir Jeffery Amherst Suggests the Smallpox 765 The Chickasaws after the Revolution 816 George Washington’s Indian Policy 84Chapter 6 What the New Nation Portended for Indians 891 Lewis and Clark in the Pacific Northwest 892 Russian Settlements in Alaska 913 Tecumseh’s Demands 944 The Cherokee Syllabary and Newspaper 995 The Cherokee Debate in Washington 1026 Black Hawk’s Autobiography 1127 William Apess’s Condemnation of White America 118Chapter 7 The Losing of the West 1221 Charles Ohiyesa Eastman’s Childhood Memories 1222 Lone Dog’s Winter Count, 1800–1870 1253 Sarah Winnemucca’s Choices 1354 The Views of George Armstrong Custer 1365 Black Elk’s Memories of the Battle of the Little Big Horn 1386 Elaine Goodale’s Observations of the Ghost Dance 1427 Charles Ohiyesa Eastman’s Visit to Wounded Knee 1448 Geronimo’s Story of His Life 146Chapter 8 Surviving Assimilation and the National Imagination 1541 The 1887 Statement of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs 1542 Francis La Flesche’s Memories of Boarding School 1573 A Navajo Girl’s Letters Home from Boarding School 1614 William Stoddard’s The Talking Leaves 1645 The Arguments of The Quarterly Journal 166Chapter 9 Mid-Twentieth-Century Changes 1711 The Arts and Crafts Act of 1935 1712 The Navajo Contribution to the War Effort 1753 The Musings of an Iroquois High Steel Man 1774 The Menominee Struggle against Termination 181Chapter 10 The Upheavals of the 1960s and 1970s 1841 The 1961 Declaration of Indian Purpose 1842 The Alcatraz Proclamation 1863 Vine Deloria’s Custer Died for Your Sins 1894 The Thoughts of Mary Crow Dog 1925 A Reporter’s Comments on the Deaths at Pine Ridge 195Chapter 11 The End of the Twentieth Century: A New Era? 1981 The Origins of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) 1982 Growing Pan-Indian Activism and the Native Press 2013 Louise Erdrich’s ‘‘Dear John Wayne’’ 2054 President Clinton’s 1994 Conference with Native Leaders 2075 Struggles over the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act 2116 An Elder’s Stories for Future Generations 2167 List of Federally Recognized Tribes Today 219Selected Bibliography 233Index 240