Native American testimony : a chronicle of Indian-white relations from prophecy to the present, 1492-2000 / edited by Peter Nabokov ; with a foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nabokov, Peter

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Government relations--Sources--Sources.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--History--Sources.

History.

Indians of North America--Government relations--Sources.

Indians of North America--Government relations.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 506 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm

Edition:

Revised and updated edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1999.

Summary:

Revised to bring this important chronicle to the end of the millennium, anthropologist Peter Nabokov presents a history of Native American and white relations as seen though Indian eyes and told through Indian voices. Beginning with the Indians' first encounters with European explorers, traders, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers to the challenges confronting Native American culture today, Native American Testimony is a series of powerful and moving documents spanning five hundred years of interchange between the two peoples. Drawing from a wide range of sources -- traditional narratives, Indian autobiographies, government transcripts, firsthand interviews, and more -- Nabokov has assembled a remarkably rich and vivid collection, representing nothing less than an alternate history of North America.

Contents:

Part 1 First Encounter to Dispossession 1

Chapter 1 Premonitions and Prophecies 3

1 He Will Use Any Means to Get What He Wants / Dan Katchongva (Hopi) 6

2 White Rabbit Got Lotsa Everything / Lucy Young (Wintu) 7

3 Visitors from Heaven / Norval Morriseau (Ojibway) 10

4 Thunder's Dream Comes True / Black Hawk (Sauk) 12

5 Easy Life of the Gray-Eyed / James Paytiamo (Acoma Pueblo) 14

6 The Spider's Web / Black Elk (Oglala Sioux) 15

Chapter 2 Face to Face 18

1 Their Wondrous Works and Ways / Charles Alexander Eastman (Santee Sioux) 21

2 Before They Got Thick / Percy Bigmouth (Lipan Apache) 24

3 Silmoodawa Gives a Complete Performance / Anonymous (Micmac) 25

4 A Different Kind of Man / First Boy (Assiniboine) 26

5 I Hid Myself and Watched / Pretty Shield (Crow), Jaime (Navajo) 29

Chapter 3 Exchange Between Worlds 32

1 Thunder, Dizzying Liquid, and Cups That Do Not Grow / Waioskasit (Menominee) 36

2 Keep Your Presents / Curly Chief (Pawnee) 38

3 Give Us Good Goods / Anonymous (tribe unknown) 40

4 You Rot the Guts of Our Young Men / King Haglar (Catawba) 41

5 Some Strange Animal / Wolf Calf (Piegan) 42

6 Buttocks Bags and Green Coffee Bread / Anonymous (Jicarilla Apache) 45

7 The Bewitched Pale Man / Vital Thomas (Dogrib) 47

Chapter 4 Bearers of the Cross 49

1 Burn the Temples, Break Up the Bells / Pedro Naranjo (San Felipe Pueblo) 54

2 A Good Indian's Dilemma / Anonymous (Fox) 57

3 We Never Quarrel About Religion / Red Jacket (Iroquois) 57

4 Janitin Is Named Jesus / Janitin (Kamia) 58

5 The Freedom to Work / Pablo Tac (Luiseno) 60

6 A Shaman Obeys / Pedro Encinales (Salinan) 63

7 Always Give Blessings and Be Thankful / Jim Whitewolf (Kiowa Apache) 64

Chapter 5 Living Beside Each Other 68

1 Remove the Cause of Our Uneasiness / Wahunsonacock (Powhatan Confederacy) 72

2 Mary Jemison Becomes an Iroquois / Mary Jemison (Iroquois) 73

3 Our Very Good Friend Kirk / The Old Snake et al. (Shawnee) 78

4 The Frenchman Dreams Himself Home / Anonymous (Winnebago) 80

5 Incident at Boyer Creek / Anonymous (Omaha) 82

6 Our Stock of Food and Clothes / Aleck Paul (Chippewa) 85

7 If I Could See This Thing / George Bent (Southern Cheyenne) 87

Chapter 6 The Long Resistance 90

1 We Must Be United / Tecumseh (Shawnee) 95

2 Black Hawk Stands Alone / William Jones (Fox) 98

3 Blood Scattered Like Water / William Benson (Pomo) 101

4 Young Men, Go Out and Fight Them / Wooden Leg (Northern Cheyenne) 106

5 Geronimo Puts Down the Gun / Jason Betzinez (Southern Chiricahua Apache) 112

Chapter 7 The Treaty Trail 117

1 Let Us Examine the Facts / Corn Tassel (Cherokee) 121

2 Osceola Determined / Osceola et al. (Seminole) 124

3 My Son, Stop Your Ears / Chief Joseph (Nez Perce) 129

4 We Are Not Children / Medicine Horse et al. (Otoe) 133

5 Plenty Coups Travels to Washington / Plenty Coups (Crow) 140

Chapter 8 Exiles in Their Own Land 145

1 Plea from the Chickasaw / Levi Colbert et al. (Chickasaw) 151

2 Tushpa Crosses the Mississippi / James Culberson (Choctaw) 152

3 Corralling the Navajo / Chester Arthur (Navajo) 157

4 The Uprooted Winnebago / Little Hill (Winnebago) 161

5 Standing Bear's Odyssey / Standing Bear (Ponca) 164

Chapter 9 The Nation's Hoop is Broken and Scattered 170

1 The Buffalo Go / Old Lady Horse (Kiowa) 174

2 Take Care of Me / Wild Cat (Seminole) 176

3 I Am Alone / Cochise (Chiricahua Apache) 176

4 I Have Spoken / Crazy Horse (Oglala Sioux) 178

5 I Want to Look for My Children / Chief Joseph (Nez Pece) 180

6 No Dawn to the East / Anonymous (tribe unknown) 181

7 Gone Forever / Buffalo Bird Woman (Hidatsa) 182

8 This Awful Loneliness / Anonymous (Omaha) 184

9 A Wish / Flint Knife (Blackfoot) 184

Part 2 Reservation to Resurgence 185

Chapter 10 The Very Small Islands 187

1 Treated Better by Wolves / Passing Hail (Santee Sioux), Struck By The Ree (Yankton Sioux) 193

2 We Lost Everything / Herrero (Navajo) 196

3 The Way Agents Get Rich / Sarah Winnemucca (Paiute) 198

4 The Career of Ely Parker / Ely S. Parker (Seneca-Iroquois) 202

5 Annie Makes Her Choice / Annie Lowry (Paiute) 204

6 We Had Everything to Learn / Carl Sweezy (Arapaho) 207

Chapter 11 To Learn Another Way 213

1 Responsive and Resistant Students / Ellis B. Childers (Creek), Lone Wolf (Blackfoot) 218

2 He Is Not One of Us / Sun Elk (Taos Pueblo) 221

3 What Harm Is in Our Sun-dance? / Anonymous (Blackfoot) 224

4 We Will Dance / Anonymous (Kwakiutl) 225

5 Dr. Fewkes Plays Like a Child / Edmund Nequatewa (Hopi) 227

6 Judge Wooden Leg Keeps One Wife / Wooden Leg (Northern Cheyenne) 229

Chapter 12 The Flood Has Come 232

1 A House of Our Own / Joseph La Flesche et al. (Omaha) 238

2 Luther's Father Stands Alone / Luther Standing Bear (Rosebud Sioux) 240

3 Half White and Half Indian / John Stands In Timber (Northern Cheyenne) 244

4 We Want to Tell You Something / Albert Yava (Hopi) 246

5 He-na Tom, the Hoodwinker / Lucy Thompson (Yurok) 251

6 The Dead Did Not Return / Anonymous (Pine Ridge Sioux) 253

Chapter 13 Hearts on the Ground 256

1 Life on the Checkerboard / Ruth Muskrat Bronson (Cherokee) 262

2 Big Man's Rules and Laws / Alexander Posey (Creek) 263

3 The Outrage of Allotment / DeWitt Clinton Duncan (Cherokee) 265

4 Farming and Futility / Martin Charlot (Flathead-Salish) 267

5 The Hopi Push of War / Helen Sekaquaptewa (Hopi) 271

Chapter 14 A Twentieth-Century Indian Voice 275

1 The Best and the Brightest / Society of American (Indians) 282

2 Laughing at Themselves / Anonymous 289

3 From Wassaja to Montezuma / Carlos Montezuma (Yavapai-Apache) 291

4 Suddenly a Gate / Michael Posluns (Shuswap) 295

5 Following the Medicine / Anonymous (Washoe) 296

6 Scandal in Oklahoma / Gertrude Bonnin (Sioux et al.) 300

Chapter 15 Interlude of Hope 304

1 Hard Times in Sioux Country / John Fire Lame Deer (Sioux) 311

2 Neglect Along the Klamath / Robert Spott (Yurok) 313

3 The Twenties at San Juan / Alfonso Ortiz (San Juan Pueblo) 316

4 Commissioner Collier Is on Our Side / Antonio Luhan (Taos Pueblo) 320

5 Resisting the Indian New Deal / Rupert Costo (Cahuilla) 324

6 Debate Over IRA / Alfred DuBray (Sioux), Ramon Roubideaux (Sioux) 327

7 Reducing Navajo Sheep / The Blind Man's Daughter (Navajo) 330

Chapter 16 In And Out of the Mainstream 332

1 Counting Coup in World War Two / Joseph Medicine Crow (Crow) 338

2 A Code Talker Comes Home / Anonymous (Navajo) 341

3 The Menominees Are Terminated / DRUMS committee (Menominee) 344

4 On Relocation / Bennie Bearskin (Winnebago), Watt Spade (Cherokee) 348

5 Stopping Erosion / Anonymous (Navajo) 354

Chapter 17 Let's Raise Some Hell 355

1 The New Indian Wars / Laura McCloud (Tulalip) 362

2 Invading Alcatraz / Adam Fortunate Eagle (Red Lake Chippewa) 367

3 Discovery: The Beeah Tribe / Anonymous 371

4 Birth of AIM / Vernon Bellecourt (Chippewa) 372

5 Confrontation or Negotiation / Gerald Vizenor (White Earth Chippewa) 376

Chapter 18 So Long as This Land Exists 381

1 Going Back / Little Star (tribe unknown) 388

2 Hopis and the Love Generation / Peter Nuvamsa Sr. (Hopi), Fred Coyote (Wailaki) 390

3 Eskimos and "The Act" / Fred Biajim (Eskimo), James Ito-Adler 393

4 Dark Sky Over Black Mesa / Asa Bazhonoodah (Navajo) 397

5 Indian Children in Crisis / Anonymous (Oklahoma Indian), Anonymous (Hopi) 401

Chapter 19 It's Hard to be Indian 404

1 What Am I / Anonymous 411

2 Alone and Very Scared / Richard S. Cardinal (Chipewyan) 413

3 Notes from Indian Country / Tim Giago (Sioux) 418

4 Before and After Gambling / Jim Northrup (Ojibwe) 420

5 Sovereignty Revitalized / Donald L.

Fixico (Creek-Seminole-Shawnee-Sac and Fox) 422

6 Restoring Life to the Dead / Rosemary Cambra (Muwekma) 425

7 First and Last Eskimos / Anonymous (Eskimo) 429

8 Resistance at Oka / Peter Blue Cloud (Mohawk) 433

9 Confronting Columbus Again / N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa) 437

Chapter 20 Towards a Native Millennium 441

1 Thorns in the Side / Leslie Logan 448

2 History Repeating Itself / Jenine Dumont (Metis) 450

3 Old Names in Charge / Wilma Mankiller (Cherokee), Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Cheyenne) 452

4 Different Programs / Ben Bray (Creek) 456

5 Reuniting with Beauty / Rose Johnson/Tsosie (Navajo) 460

6 Speedboat or Canoe? / Watt Scraper (Cherokee) 462

7 An Eagle Nation / Carter Revard (Osage) 465

8 The End of the World / The Zuni People, Anonymous (Apache) 469.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0140281592

OCLC:

43365323