Native American testimony : an anthology of Indian and White relations ; first encounter to dispossession / edited by Peter Nabokov ; pref. by Vine Deloria, Jr.
A collection of documents in which native Americans describe their responses to the explorers, traders, missionaries, settlers, and government diplomats and soldiers seeking dominion over their ancient homeland.
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℗♭1978.
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Table of Contents:
- PREMONITIONS AND PROPHECIES:
- He will use any means to get what he wants/ Dan Katchongva, Hopi
- White Rabbit got lotsa everything / Lucy Young, Wintun
- Visitors from heaven / Norval Morriseau, Ojibway
- Thunder's dream comes true / Black Hawk, Sauk
- Easy life of the gray-eyed / James Paytiamo, Acoma Pueblo
- The spider's web / Black Elk, Oglala Sioux.
- FACE TO FACE:
- Their wondrous works and ways / Charles Alexander Eastman, Santee Sioux
- Before they got thick / Percy Bigmouth, Lipan Apache
- Simoodawa gives a complete performance / Anonymous, Micmac
- A different kind of man / First Boy, Assiniboine
- I hid myself and watched / Pretty shield, Crow; and Jaime, Navajo.
- EXCHANGE BETWEEN WORLDS:
- Thunder, dizzying liquid, and cups that do not grow / Waioskasit, Menomini
- Keep your presents / Curly Chief, Pawnee
- Give us good goods / Anonymous, tribe unknown
- You rot the guts of our young men / King Haglar, Catawba
- Some strange animal / Wolf calf, Piegan
- Buttocks bags and green coffee bread / Anonymous, Jicarilla Apache
- The bewitched pale man / Vital Thomas, Dogrib.
- BEARERS OF THE CROSS:
- Burn the temples, break up the bells / Pedro Naranjo, San Felipe Pueblo
- A good Indian's dilemma / Anonymous, Fox
- We never quarrel about religion / Red Jacket, Iroquois
- Janitin is named Jesus / Janitin, Kamia
- The freedom to work / Pablo Tac, Luiseno
- A shaman obeys / Pedro Encinales, Salinan
- Always give blessings and be thankful / Jim Whitewolf, Kiowa Apache.
- LIVING BESIDE EACH OTHER:
- Remove the cause of our uneasiness / Wahunsonacock, Powhatan Confederacy
- Mary Jemison becomes an Iroquois / Mary Jemison, Iroquois
- Our very good friend Kirk / The Old Snake, et al. Shawnee
- The Frenchman dreams himself home / Anonymous, Winnebago
- Incident at Boyer Creek / Anonymous, Omaha
- If I could see this thing / George Bent, Southern Cheyenne
- All things are connected / Seattle, Dwamish.
- THE LONG RESISTANCE:
- We must be united / Tecumseh, Shawnee
- Black Hawk stands alone / William Jones, Fox
- Blood scattered like water / William Benson, Pomo
- Young men, go out and fight them / Wooden Leg, Northern Cheyenne
- Geronimo puts down the gun / Jason Betzinez, Southern Chiricahua Apache.
- THE TREATY TRAIL:
- Let us examine the facts / Corn Tassel, Cherokee
- Osceola determined / Chief Joseph, Nez Perce
- We are not children / Medicine Horse, et al., Otoe
- Plenty Coups travels to Washington / Plenty Coups, Crow.
- EXILES IN THEIR OWN LAND:
- Plea from the Chicksaw / Levi Colbert, et al., Chicksaw
- Tushpa crosses the Mississippi / James Culberson, Choctaw
- Corralling the Navajo / Chester Arthur, Navajo
- The uprooted Winnebago / Little Hill, Winnebago
- Standing Bear's odyssey / Standing Bear, Ponca.
- THE NATION'S HOOP IS BROKEN AND SCATTERED:
- The Buffalo go / Old Lady Horse, Kiowa
- Take care of me / Wild Cat, Seminole
- I am alone / Cochise, Ciricahua Apache
- I have spoken / Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux
- I want to look for my children / Chief Joseph, Nez Perce
- No Dawn to the East / Anonymous, tribe unknown
- Gone forever / Buffalo Bird Woman, Hidatsa
- This aweful lonliness / Anonymous, Omaha
- A wish / Flint knife, Blackfoot.