Native America - A History

Informationen zum Autor Michael Leroy Oberg, PhD, is Distinguished Professor of History at SUNY-Geneseo and Director of the Geneseo Center for Local and Municipal History. He is the author of Dominion and Civility: English Imperialism and Native America, 1585-1685, and Peacemakers: The Iroquois, the United States, and the Treaty of Canandaigua, 1794. Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich received his PhD in History from William & Mary in 2021. He is the editor of The New American Antiquarian. Klappentext The latest edition of an accessible and comprehensive survey of Native America In this newly revised third edition of Native America: A History , Michael Leroy Oberg and Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich deliver a thoroughly updated, incisive narrative history of North America's Indigenous peoples. The authors aim to provide readers with an overview of the principal themes and developments in Native American history, from the first peopling of the continent to the present, by following twelve Native communities whose histories serve as exemplars for the common experiences of North America's diverse Indigenous nations. This textbook centers the history of Native America and presents it as flowing through channels distinct from those of the United States. This is a history of nations not merely acted upon, but rather of those that have responded to, resisted, ignored, and shaped the efforts of foreign powers to control their story. This new edition has been comprehensively updated in all its chapters and expanded with wider coverage of the most significant recent events and trends in Native America through the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Native America: A History, Third Edition also includes: A survey of pre-Columbian North American traditions and the various ways in which these traditions were deployed to comprehend and respond to the arrival of Europeans. In-depth examinations of how Native nations navigated the challenges of colonialism and fought to survive while marginalized behind the frontiers of European empires and the United States. Nuanced analyses of how Indigenous peoples balanced the economic benefits offered by assimilation with the cultural and political imperatives of maintaining traditions and sovereignty. An accessible presentation of American tribal law and the strategies used by Native nations to establish government-to-government relationships with the United States despite the repeated failures of that state to honor its legal commitments. Perfect for undergraduate and graduate students seeking a broad historical treatment of Indigenous peoples in the United States, Native America: A History, Third Edition will earn a place in the libraries of anyone with an interest in seeking an authoritative and engaging survey of Native American history. Zusammenfassung The latest edition of an accessible and comprehensive survey of Native AmericaIn this newly revised third edition of Native America: A History, Michael Leroy Oberg and Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich deliver a thoroughly updated, incisive narrative history of North America's Indigenous peoples. The authors aim to provide readers with an overview of the principal themes and developments in Native American history, from the first peopling of the continent to the present, by following twelve Native communities whose histories serve as exemplars for the common experiences of North America's diverse Indigenous nations. This textbook centers the history of Native America and presents it as flowing through channels distinct from those of the United States. This is a history of nations not merely acted upon, but rather of those that have responded to, resisted, ignored, and shaped the efforts of foreign powers to control their story.This new edition has been comprehensively updated in all its chapters and expanded with wider coverage of the most...

List of contents

List of Figures
 
List of Maps
 
Introduction
 
1 Myths and Legends
 
The Beginning of the World
 
Rules for Living
 
Bears
 
2 Worlds New and Worlds Old
 
The Fundamental Violence of Discovery
 
Paths of Destruction
 
Tsenacommacah
 
The Mohegans
 
New Worlds
 
3 Living in the New World
 
Mourning Wars
 
Colonizing the Mohegans
 
The Word of God
 
Colonizing the Powhatans
 
Forging the Covenant Chain
 
Indigenous Peoples and the French in a World of War
 
The Pueblos' Revolt
 
Horses
 
The Grand Settlement
 
The Cherokees
 
Indigenous Peoples and the Nature of Empires
 
4 Indigenous Peoples and the Fall of European Empires
 
Penn's Woods
 
The Potawatomis in a World of Conflicting Empires
 
Settlement and Unsettledness
 
Life at the Western Door
 
Behind the Frontier
 
The Great Wars for Empire
 
The Proclamation and the Indian Boundary Line
 
Indians and Empires
 
5 Indigenous Peoples and the Rise of a New American Empire
 
Change in the Far Western World
 
Declarations of Independence
 
The Revolution and the Longhouse
 
Cherokees and Chickamaugas
 
England's Allies and the Confederation
 
The Six Nations and the Empire State
 
Confederations
 
A New Order for the Ages
 
1794, A Year of Consequence
 
The White Man's Republic
 
6 Relocations and Removes
 
The Mohegans' Struggle for Independence
 
The Rise of the Prophet
 
Handsome Lake
 
Dispossessing the Senecas
 
Pioneers and Exiles
 
Removing from the Missions
 
The Optimism of the Imperialist
 
7 The Invasion of the Great West
 
Pledges and Promises
 
Settling In and Settling Down
 
Homesteaders
 
Concentration
 
The Indians' Civil War
 
Peace and War
 
8 The Age of Dispossession
 
"Conform To It or Be Crushed By It"
 
Spelatch
 
Ghost Dancers
 
The Assault on Indian Identity
 
Living Under the New Regime
 
The New Life in the Indian Territory
 
The Crows and the Life on the Northern Plains
 
Indigenous Peoples in the Eastern United States
 
A Movement for Reform
 
The Origins of the Indian New Deal
 
9 New Deals and Old Deals
 
Reforming Indian Policy
 
Indigenous Peoples and World War II
 
Termination and the Coalminer's Canary
 
Cleaning the Slate
 
New Frontiers
 
Red Power
 
10 Sovereign Nations and Colonized Nations
 
The Importance of 1978
 
The State of the Nations
 
Exercising Sovereignty
 
Toward the Future
 
Bibliography
 
Index

Product details

• Authors: Michael Leroy Oberg, Michael Leroy (State University of New York Oberg, Michael Leroy Olsen-Harbich Oberg, ML Oberg, Oberg Michael Leroy, Peter Jakob Olsen-Harbich, Peter Jakob Oberg Olsen-Harbich
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2022
• EAN: 9781119768494
• ISBN: 978-1-119-76849-4
• No. of pages: 400
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology; Geschichte, Amerika, Kulturwissenschaften, Ureinwohner, History, Cultural Studies, Amerikanische Ureinwohner, Geschichte der USA, US History, Native American Studies, Amerika / Ureinwohnerforschung