Native America : a history / Michael Leroy Oberg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title Page ; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures; List of Maps; Introduction; Chapter 1 Myths and Legends; The Beginning of the World; Rules for Living; Bears; Chapter 2 Worlds New and Worlds Old; The Fundamental Violence of Discovery; Paths of Destruction; Tsenacommacah; The Mohegans; New Worlds; Chapter 3 Living in the New World; Mourning Wars; Colonizing the Mohegans; The Word of God; Colonizing the Powhatans; Forging the Covenant Chain; Native Peoples and the French in a World of War; The Pueblos' Revolt; Horses; The Grand Settlement; The Cherokees.
Native Peoples and the Nature of EmpiresChapter 4 Native Peoples and the Fall of European Empires; Penn's Woods; The Potawatomis in a World of Conflicting Empires; Settlement and Unsettledness; Life at the Western Door; Behind the Frontier; The Great Wars for Empire; The Proclamation and the Indian Boundary Line; Indians and Empires; Chapter 5 Native Peoples and the Rise of a New American Empire; Change in the Far Western World; Declarations of Independence; The Revolution and the Longhouse; Cherokees and Chickamaugas; England's Allies and the Confederation.
The Six Nations and the Empire StateConfederations; A New Order for the Ages; 1794, A Year of Consequence; The White Man's Republic; Chapter 6 Relocations and Removes; The Mohegans' Struggle for Independence; The Rise of the Prophet; Handsome Lake; Dispossessing the Senecas; Pioneers and Exiles; Removing from the Missions; The Optimism of the Imperialist; Chapter 7 The Invasion of the Great West; Pledges and Promises; Settling In and Settling Down; Homesteaders; Concentration; The Indians' Civil War; Peace and War; Chapter 8 The Age of Dispossession; "Conform To It or Be Crushed By It."
SpelatchGhost Dancers; The Assault on Indian Identity; Living Under the New Regime; The New Life in the Indian Territory; The Crows and the Life on the Northern Plains; Native Peoples in the Eastern United States; A Movement for Reform; The Origins of the Indian New Deal; Chapter 9 New Deals and Old Deals; Reforming Indian Policy; Native Peoples and World War II; Termination and the Coalminer's Canary; Cleaning the Slate; New Frontiers; Red Power; Chapter 10 Sovereign Nations and Colonized Nations; The Importance of 1978; The State of the Nations; Exercising Sovereignty; Toward the Future.

Native America: A History, Second Edition offers a thoroughly revised and updated narrative history of American Indian peoples in what became the United States. The new edition includes expanded coverage of the period since the Second World War, including an updated discussion of the Red Power Movement, the legal status of native nations in the United States, and important developments that have transformed Indian Country over the past 75 years. Also new to this edition are sections focusing on the Pacific Northwest. Placing the experiences of native communities at the heart of the text, historian Michael Leroy Oberg focuses on twelve native communities whose histories encapsulate the principal themes and developments in Native American history and follows them from earliest times to the present. --Book Jacket.