These 26 essays on native Americans cover every region of North America - including Canada - and each important time period. The essays chronicle the ways in which the circumstances of native Americans have changed since 1600, with an emphasis on events, issues, and progress in the 20th century.

This collection of 26 essays on native Americans covers every region of North America - including Canada - and each important time period. The essays chronicle the ways in which the circumstances of native Americans have changed since 1600, with an emphasis on events, issues, and progress in the 20th century. In this edition, the topics covered reflect the most recent scholarly activity and interests in the field: women's issues, demography, native Americans and the environment, biography, urbanization, Pan-Indianism, and intra- and inter-tribal issues.

Colonial America without the Indians - counterfactual reflections
virgin soil epidemics as a factor in the aboriginal depopulation in America
Opechancanough - Indian resistance leader
red-white power relations and justice in the courts of 17th-century New England
the Sillery experiment - a Jesuit-Indian village in New Frand, 1637-1663
the Indians' new world - the Catawba experience
"Poor Richard" meets the native American - schooling for young Indian women in 18th-century Connecticut
the revolutionary war and the Indians of the Upper Susquehanna Valley
econonmic development and native American women in the early 19th century
early pan-Indianism - Tecumseh's tour of the Indian country, 1811-1812
backdrop for disaster - causes of the Arikara war of 1823
native Americans in the fur trade and wildlife depletion
Cherokee women and the trail of tears
Indians in Los Angeles, 1781-1875 - economic integration, social disintegration
Indian land use and environmental change in Island County, Washington - a case study
the Navajo at the Bosque Redondo - co-operation, resistance, and initiative, 1864-1868
Canada's Subgugatim of the Plains Cree, 1879-1885
from prison to homeland - the Cheyenne River Indian reservation before World War I
urban Indians and ethnic choices - American Indian organizations in Minneapolis, 1920-1950
inconstant advocacy - the erosion of Indian fishing rights in the Pacific Northwest, 1933-1955
building toward self-determination - plains and Southwestern Indians in the 1940s and 1950s
Indians and immigrants - a comparison of groups new to the city
becoming modern - some reflections on Inuit social change
Jim Crow, Indian style
full blood, mixed blood, generic and ersatz - the problem of Indian identity
Indians in the post-termination era.