The Native American world / Donna Hightower Langston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hightower-Langston, Donna, 1953-

Contributor:

Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.

Series:

Wiley desk reference

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--History--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Social life and customs--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Indians of North America--Social life and customs.

History.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

ix, 445 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, [2003]

Summary:

From the Algonquin to the Assiniboine, the Lenape to the Lumbee, and the Wichita to the Wiyot, the Native American way of life has managed to endure over the centuries thanks to the persistence and dedication of generations of American Indians. At one time, hundreds of tribes and languages existed, and important events were documented with petroglyphs, drawings, and oral stories. Today, many Native American communities struggle with educational woes and high dropout rates, the lack of quality health care, and unemployment, even as a revitalization in language and spiritual gatherings is taking place. Their story is far from over -- and makes for a fascinating, inspiring, and emotional journey. In The Native American World, Donna Hightower-Langston has captured the dramatic history and vibrant cultural traditions of the Native American people in one authoritative, accessible volume. Divided into four major sections, this comprehensive sourcebook addresses all the important aspects of Native American life, from the earliest Paleo-Indians to the present day. You'll find more than 350 vivid, well-written narrative entries that cover 150 tribal groups, plus every important war, law, treaty, religious practice, agency, leader, noteworthy individual, and organization.

Supplemented with more than 90 vivid illustrations and a detailed table of contents for easy access, The Native American World introduces the reader to such influential persons as Deganawida, the founder of the Iroquois League; Wilma Pearl Mankiller, the first female chief of the largest Indian nation today; Mangas Coloradas, a Mimbreno Apache leader in the early Apache Wars; and Sequoyah, the inventor of the Cherokee writing system. The book also examines the most significant historical milestones, from the Black Hawk Conflict and the Everglades Reclamation Policy to King Philip's War and the Wounded Knee Occupation. In addition, sidebars offer first-person accounts and narratives that bring the text to life, allowing a more personal look into the experiences of these brave people...from the Cherokee chief Dragging Canoe, who watched helplessly as his people were forced from their lands; to Ely Parker, the first Indian commissioner of Indian affairs, who wrote the surrender document at Appomattox that effectively ended the Civil War; to the last words of Tsali, a martyr who bravely faced a firing squad in 1838. Providing fast, fingertip access, The Native American World is the resource of choice for history buffs, students, and anyone who wants to better understand the indigenous peoples of North America.

Contents:

Part I Culture 7

Adena (mound building) culture 12

Agricultural period 13

Anasazi 15

ancient peoples 16

Archaic period 17

atlatl or spear thrower 18

basket makers 19

beads 19

Beringa 20

buffalo 21

Clovis Spear-Point culture 22

Desert-Cochise culture 24

Folsom Spear-Point culture (Spear Throwing) 24

Formative period 25

Ghost Dance 25

Hohokam culture 27

Hopewell culture 28

horse 29

medicine 29

Mississippian culture 30

Mogollon culture 32

Native American Church 32

Norse 34

Old Copper culture 35

Old Cordilleran culture 35

Paleo-Indian period 35

Plano (Plainview) Spear-Point culture 36

potlatch 36

pottery making 37

Poverty Point culture 37

Pueblo 38

Red Paint people 38

Sandia Spear-Point culture 39

totem poles 39

vision quest 39

Woodland Cultures 40

Part II Individuals 41

Aquash, Anna Mae 48

Banks, Dennis 49

Big Foot (Spotted Elk) 50

Brandt, Joseph 51

Captain Jack 52

Chief Joseph (Joseph Younger, Hinmaton Yalatik, Hin-Mah-Too-Yah-Laht-Ket) 54

Chisholm, Jesse 55

Cochise 56

Columbus, Christopher 56

Crazy Horse (Tashunka Witco) 58

Curtis, Charles 60

Deer, Ada 61

Deganawida 62

Deloria, Ella Cara 64

Deloria, Vine, Jr. 64

Deskaheh (Levi General) 65

Dull Knife 65

Franklin, Benjamin 67

Geronimo 68

Handsome Lake (Ganeodiyo) 70

Hiawatha 71

LaDuke, Winona 71

LaFlesche Picotte, Susan 73

Mangas Coloradas 75

Mankiller, Wilma Pearl (A-ji-luhsgi, Asgaya-dihi [flower and protector of the village]) 75

Manuelito 78

McCloud, Janet 79

Means, Russell 80

Momaday, Navarre Scott 82

Parker, Ely Samuel (Deioninohogawen, Donehogawa; Ha-sa-no-an-da) 82

Peltier, Leonard 83

Pocahontas 85

Pontiac 86

Pretty-Shield 86

Red Cloud (Mahpiua Luta, Makhpia-sha, Makhpiya-Luta [Scarlet Cloud]) 87

Sequoyah (George Gist, George Guess, George Guest; Sequoia, Siwayi, Sogwili [Principal bird, Sparrow]) 89

Sitting Bull (Tatanka Iyotake, Tatanka Iyotank, Tatanka Yotanka) 90

Squanto (Tisquantum) 91

Standing Bear (Mo-Chu-No-Zhi, Mochunozhi) 92

Tecumseh (Tecumtha) 93

Thorpe, Grace 94

Thorpe, Jim Francis 96

Victorio (Beduiat, Bidu-Ya) 97

Ward, Nancy (Nanye-Hi, "One Who Goes About," Tsistunga-gis-ke, "Wild Rose") 97

Winnemucca, Sarah Hopkins (Sally Winnemucca; Thocmetone, Thoc-me-tony [Shell Flower]) 99

Wovoka (Jack Wilson) 100

Yellow Thunder, Raymond 101

Part III Nations 103

Abenaki 111

Achumawi 112

Alabama-Coushatta 113

Aleut (see Alutiiq) 115

Algonquin 115

Alutiiq 116

Anishinabe 119

Apache 120

Arapaho 127

Arikira 129

Assiniboine 131

Beaver 132

Bella Bella 133

Bella Coola 134

Beothuk 135

Blackfeet 135

Caddo 137

Cahuilla 138

Carrier 139

Catawba 140

Cayuga 141

Cayuse 143

Chemehuevi 144

Cherokee 145

Cheyenne 149

Chickasaw 152

Chilcotin 153

Chinook 154

Chipewayan 156

Chitimacha 157

Choctaw 158

Chumash 160

Cocopa 161

Coeur d'Alene 162

Colville 164

Comanche 165

Coosan 167

Costanoan 168

Cree 169

Creek 170

Crow 173

Dakota 175

Dogrib 177

Gros Ventre 178

Haida 179

Hare 180

Havasupai 181

Hidatsa 182

Hopi 184

Houma 186

Hualapai 187

Hupa 188

Iglulik 189

Illinois 190

Ingalik 192

Inuit 193

Inupiat 196

Ioway 197

Iroquois 198

Kalispel 200

Karuk 201

Kaw 202

Kickapoo 203

Kiowa 205

Klamath 206

Klikitat 207

Kootenai 208

Kutchin 209

Kwakiutl 210

Lakota 211

Lenape 214

Lillooet 216

Luiseno 217

Lumbee 218

Maidu 219

Makah 220

Maliseet 222

Mandan 223

Menominee 224

Mesquakie (Fox) 226

Miami 228

Micmac 230

Missouria 231

Modoc 232

Mohawk 233

Mojave 234

Mono 235

Nakota 236

Nanticoke 237

Narragansett 238

Naskapi-Montagnais 239

Natchez 241

Navajo 242

Nez Perce 244

Nootka 247

Ojibwa (see Anishinabe) 248

Okanagon 248

Omaha 249

Oneida 250

Onondaga 251

Osage 253

Otoe 254

Ottawa 256

Paiute 258

Passamaquoddy 259

Pawnee 260

Pee Posh 261

Penobscot 262

Pequot 263

Pima 264

Pomo 265

Ponca 266

Potawatomi 267

Powhatan 269

Pueblo 270

Quapaw 280

Quechan (see Yuma) 281

Quileute 281

Salish 282

Sanpoil 283

Seminole 284

Seneca 285

Shasta 287

Shawnee 287

Shoshone 288

Shuswap 289

Sinkiuse 290

Spokan 290

Tillamook 291

Tipai-Ipai 291

Tlingit 292

Tohono O'odham 293

Tonkawa 294

Tsimshian 295

Tubatulabal 296

Tunica 297

Tuscarora 297

Umatilla 298

Upper Umpaqua 299

Ute 300

Wailaki 301

Wampanoag 301

Wichita 302

Wintun 303

Wishram 304

Wiyot 305

Wyandotte/Huron 305

Yakama 306

Yaqui 307

Yokuts 308

Yuchi 309

Yuma 309

Yurok 310

Zuni 311

Part IV Politics and Post-Contact History 313

Alaska Federation of Natives 324

Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act 324

Alcatraz Island occupation 325

All-Indian Pueblo Council 326

allotment (see Dawes Act) 326

American Indian Charter Convention 326

American Indian Defense Association 327

American Indian Movement 328

American Indian Policy Review Committee 328

American Indian Religious Freedom Act 329

American Revolution 329

Articles of Confederation 331

Assimilative Crimes Act 332

Bacon's Rebellion 333

Bannock Conflict 334

Bascom Affair 334

Black Hawk Conflict (Black Hawk War) 335

buffalo head nickel 337

Bureau of Indian Affairs 337

Bureau of Indian Affairs Adult Vocational Training Program 339

burial grounds 340

Burke Act 341

Canada's Office of Native Claims 341

Canadian Indian Act 342

Canadian White Paper 342

Carlisle Indian School 343

Cheyenne Arapaho War (see Sand Creek Massacre) 344

Citizenship Act 344

Civil Rights Act 1964 345

Civil War 346

Coeur d'Alene Conflict (Coeur d'Alene War) 346

Commission on Indian Reservation Economies 348

Committee of One Hundred 349

Constitution 350

Council of Energy Resource Tribes 351

Dawes Act 352

diseases 354

Dutch West Indian Company 356

educational funding 357

Elementary and Secondary Education Act 359

Everglades Reclamation Policy 359

Factory System 360

fishing rights 361

Five Civilized Tribes 361

forced patent period 362

French and Indian War 363

gold 365

Grant's Peace Policy 366

Gratten Affair 367

Hancock Campaign 367

Hollywood 368

Homestead Act 369

Hudson's Bay Company 370

Indian Appropriations Act 371

Indian Arts and Crafts Board 371

Indian Child Welfare Act 372

Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968 372

Indian Claims Commission 373

Indian Country 374

Indian Education Act 376

Indian Gaming Act 376

Indian Health Services 377

Indian Removal Act 378

Indian Reorganization Act (see Wheeler-Howard Act) 380

Indian Resources Development Act 380

Indian Self-Determination Act 380

Indian Territory 380

Inter-American Conference on Indian Life 382

International Indian Treaty Council 382

Iroquois League 383

Josephy Report 385

King George's War 385

King Philip's War 386

King William's War 387

Lake Mohonk Conference 388

Little Turtle's War 389

Long Walk 390

Longest Walk to Washington, D.C. 390

Louisiana Purchase 391

Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act 391

Mariposa Conflict 392

Meriam Report 392

Mexican Kickapoo Uprising 393

missionaries 393

Modoc Conflict 396

Mohawk Blockade 397

Mormons 398

National Congress of American Indians 398

National Council of American Indians 399

National Indian Youth Council 399

Native American Women's Health Education Resource Center 401

Navajo Community College 401

Navajo Hopi Land Settlement Act 402

Nootka Convention 403

Northwest Ordinance 403

Oklahoma Indian Welfare Act 404

Paxton Riots 404

Pequot Conflict 405

Pilgrims 406

Pontiac's Rebellion 407

Public Law 280 408

Queen Anne's War 408

Reclamation Act 408

relocation program 409

removal policy 410

reservations 411

Riel rebellion 414

Russian American Fur Company 414

Sand Creek Massacre (Cheyenne-Arapaho War) 415

Seminole uprisings 416

Senate Investigating Committee on Indian Affairs 417

Sheepeater Conflict 417

Snake Conflict 418

Snyder Act (see Citizenship Act) 419

termination policy 419

Tippecanoe 420

Trail of Broken Treaties Caravan 421

Trail of Tears 421

Treaty of Medicine Lodge 423

Tribal police 424

Tuscarora conflict 425

United States Civil Rights Commission 426

Ute Conflict 427

Walla Walla Council 427

War for the Bozeman Trail 428

Water rights 428

Wheeler-Howard Act (Indian Reorganization Act) 429

Women of All Red Nations 430

Wounded Knee Massacre 431

Wounded Knee Occupation 432

Yamasee Conflict 433.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-445).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Phi Beta Kappa Library Trust Fund.

ISBN:

0471403229

OCLC:

50301117