This collection brings together the best recent essays covering over five hundred years of American Indian history. Attached to each essay are primary historical documents that deal with issues of survival, resistance, accommodation, and adaptation, all of which illuminate the complexity and diversity of American Indian experiences.
About the Author
Nancy Shoemaker is Associate Professor of History at the University of Connecticut. She is the author of American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century (1999), and editor of Negotiators of Change: Historical Perspectives on Native American Women (1995). She has also published articles on American Indian history in The American Historical Review, The Western Historical Quarterly, and The Journal of Women's History.
Features
Contains seven definitive essays covering American Indian history from the fifteenth century to the present.
Includes editorial introductions, documents, and further reading lists.
Articles deal with survival, resistance, accommodation and adaptation illuminating the complexity and diversity of the American Indian experience.
