In the hands of the great spirit : the 20,000 year history of American Indians
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- ISBN: 0684855763
- Physical Description xiii, 464 pages : illustrations, maps
- Publisher New York ; Free Press, [2003]
- Copyright ©2003
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 437-449) and index. |
| Immediate Source of Acquisition Note: | LSC 47.50 |
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In the Hands of the Great Spirit : The 20,000-Year History of American Indians
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Table of Contents
In the Hands of the Great Spirit : The 20,000-Year History of American Indians
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Preface: Indian Country | p. 1 | |
| Part 1 | Initial Conditions | p. 10 |
| Chapter 1 | Arrival | p. 12 |
| Origins | ||
| Virgin Country: Pleistocene America | ||
| The First Americans: Who Were They and When Did They Come? | ||
| Chapter 2 | Hunters and Gatherers | p. 33 |
| A Magical Bear | ||
| Pleistocene Overkill? | ||
| Bison Hunting | ||
| Hot Rocks and Hostile Plants | ||
| The Great Basin | ||
| The Pacific Coast | ||
| The East | ||
| The Coming of Agriculture | ||
| Agriculture on the Plains | ||
| Mondawmin | ||
| Chapter 3 | High Society | p. 65 |
| The Mound Builders | ||
| The Hohokam: Master Hydrologists | ||
| Mogollons and Anasazis: Master Builders | ||
| Coda: The Athapaskans | ||
| October 11, 1492 | ||
| Part 2 | Contact and Response | p. 94 |
| Chapter 4 | Mysteries | p. 96 |
| Prophets | ||
| Population and the Pox | ||
| Perceptions | ||
| The Question of Cannibalism | ||
| What the Indians Made of Europeans | ||
| Chapter 5 | The Spanish | p. 122 |
| La Florida: Place of Flowers | ||
| Seven Cities of Gold: Nuevo Mexico | ||
| The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 | ||
| Chapter 6 | The French and the English | p. 156 |
| Virginia | ||
| The Northeast | ||
| The Upper Country--Great Lakes | ||
| Century's End | ||
| Part 3 | The Reinvention of Indian America | p. 186 |
| Chapter 7 | The French Connection | p. 188 |
| Winnebago Destiny | ||
| Pressures from the East | ||
| Sex, Murder, and Food | ||
| Chapter 8 | Invading the Plains | p. 202 |
| The Three Worlds of the Cheyennes | ||
| Bison, Sun Dances, and the Plains Ecosystem | ||
| Counting Coup and Open Warfare | ||
| The Coming of the Sioux | ||
| Chapter 9 | World War and a New Nation | p. 213 |
| The Case of the Catawbas | ||
| The Seven Years War | ||
| Pontiac's Rebellion | ||
| The Americans Take Charge | ||
| The West Coast | ||
| Part 4 | Indeh | p. 242 |
| Chapter 10 | Removal | p. 244 |
| The Rise and Fall of Tecumseh | ||
| Red Sticks and Civilized Tribes | ||
| The Marshall Trilogy | ||
| Trails of Tears | ||
| Chapter 11 | An American Southwest | p. 264 |
| The New Mexico Territory | ||
| Pariahs and Paiutes | ||
| California Onslaught | ||
| Chapter 12 | The Last of the Great Horsemen | p. 280 |
| The Big Treaty | ||
| The Civil War and Westem Massacres | ||
| Peace Policy and Warfare on the Plains | ||
| Holdouts--the Nez Perces | ||
| Holdouts--the Chiricahuas | ||
| Chapter 13 | The Reservation | p. 306 |
| The Humanitarians | ||
| The Ethnographers | ||
| On the Reservations | ||
| Peyote and Ghost Dances | ||
| Final Solution Number One | ||
| Part 5 | New Deals | p. 334 |
| Chapter 14 | The Progressive Era | p. 336 |
| Legalities | ||
| Chiricahua Destiny | ||
| World War and Two Dreadful Senators | ||
| Seeing the Light, Dimly | ||
| The Meriam Report | ||
| Chapter 15 | Watershed | p. 358 |
| The Trials and Triumphs of John Collier | ||
| World War II | ||
| Some Final Solutions | ||
| Termination | ||
| Chapter 16 | Red Power | p. 379 |
| Alcatraz and Earlier | ||
| The Militant Seventies | ||
| The Not-So-Militant Seventies | ||
| The Eerie Deliberations of the Indian Claims Commission | ||
| A Dispute Between Indians | ||
| Chapter 17 | Current Events | p. 404 |
| The Rise of the East | ||
| Gambling | ||
| Water | ||
| Sacred Matters | ||
| Bibliography and Further Reading | p. 437 | |
| Some Acknowledgments | p. 451 | |
| Index | p. 453 |
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