This Indian country : American Indian political activists and the place they made / Frederick E. Hoxie.
Hoxie, Frederick E., 1947-
2012
E98.T77 H69 2012 (Mapit)
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Title This Indian country : American Indian political activists and the place they made / Frederick E. Hoxie.
Author Hoxie, Frederick E., 1947-
ISBN 9781594203657
1594203652
Publication Details New York : Penguin Press, 2012.
Language English
Description 467 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number E98.T77 H69 2012
Dewey Decimal Classification 323.1197
Summary Most Americans view Indians as people of the past who occupy a position outside the central narrative of American history. It's assumed that Native history has no particular relationship to what is conventionally presented as the story of America. Indians had a history, but theirs was short and sad, and it ended a long time ago. Here, leading historian Frederick E. Hoxie has created a bold counter-narrative. Native American history, he argues, is also a story of political activism, its victories hard-won in courts and campaigns rather than on the battlefield. For more than two hundred years, Indian activists have sought to bridge the distance between indigenous cultures and the American republic through legal and political debate. Over time their struggle defined a new language of "Indian rights" and created a vision of American Indian identity. Hoxie asks readers to think deeply about how a country based on the values of liberty and equality managed to adapt to the complex demands of people who refused to be overrun or ignored.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 407-451) and index.
Series Penguin history of American life.
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Erased from the map
The first Indian lawyer : James McDonald, Choctaw
The mountaintop principality of San Marino : William Potter Ross, Cherokee
The Winnemucca rules : Sarah Winnemucca, Paiute
The U.S. Court of Claims : the Mille Lacs Ojibwes
The good citizenship gun : Thomas Sloan, Omaha
Three Indians who didn't live at Taos : Robert Yellowtail, Crow; Alice Jemison, Seneca; and D'Arcy McNickle, Salish
Indian American or American Indian? : Vine Deloria, Jr., Sioux
Afterword : This Indian country.

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