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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Online Access: Full Text (via Internet Archive)
Other Authors: Nabokov, Peter
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Crowell, ℗♭1978.
Edition:1st ed.
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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.