This Indian country : American Indian political activists and the place they made /
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...
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New York :
Penguin Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Penguin history of American life.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
