Native American Voices
Ordered by chronology and topic

Overview of Native American History

PART I
Introduction
Prehistoric Patterns of Change
The Cultures of Prehistoric America
The Eve of Contact
Kinship and Religion

PART II
European Perceptions
The Clash of Cultures
English Encounters
Native Americans and European Contests for Empire

PART III
Cultural Survival Strategies
Clearing the Land of Indians
The "Five Civilized Tribes" and the Civil War
The Tragedy of the Western Indians
Resistance on the Great Plains
Wounded Knee

PART IV
"Kill the Indian and Save the Man"
Native Americans at the Turn of the Century
Revitalization and Renewal
Indian Power

• Introduction: Pocohontas
• Native Americans Discover Europeans
  
  • William Wood
    
  • The Gentleman of Elvas
    
  • Joseph Nicolar
    
  • Chrestien Le Clercq
    
• The Diversity of Native America: The Southwest
  
  • Juan de Onate
    
• The Diversity of Native America: The Plains
  
  • Pedro de Castenada
    
• The Diversity of Native America: The Middle Colonies
  
  • William Penn
    
• The Diversity of Native America: The Northeast
  
  • Pierre de Charlevoix
    
• Childbirth and Infancy
  
  • Adriaen Van der Donck
    
  • John Long
    
  • Waiyautitsa
    
• Boyhood and Girlhood
  
  • Gabriel Sagard
    
  • John Heckewelder
    
  • Charles Eastman
    
  • Cries-for-salmon
    
• Courtship, Marriage, and Gender Roles
  
  • Chrestien Le Clercq
    
  • John Heckewelder
    
  • Gabriel Sagard
    

• Introduction: Tecumseh and the Shawnee Prophet
• Coexistence and Conflict in the Spanish Southwest: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
  
  • Pedro Naranjo
    
• Coexistence and Conflict in the Spanish Southwest: The California Missions
  
  • Alexander Forbes
    
• Opening of the French Fur Trade
  
  • Samuel De Champlain
    
• The Pilgrims from the Indian Perspective
  
  • William Apes
    
• Conflict and Accomodation in the Northeast: Destruction of the Pequots
  
  • William Bradford
    
• Conflict and Accomodation in the Northeast: A Naragansett Plea for Unity
  
  • Miantonomo
    
• King Philip's War
  
  • Edmund Randolph
    
• Conflict and Cooperation in the Southeast
  
  • Powhatan
    
• Beginnings of the Fur Trade in the Carolinas
  
  • Dr. Henry Woodward
    
• The Iroquois and English Form an Alliance
  
  • A Speech of the Onondagas & Cajouga Sachems
    
• Shifting Loyalties
  
  • Ostenaco
    
• Great Wars for Empire
  
  • Minavavana
    
• Advice from the Master of Life
  
  • Pontiac
    
• Survival Strategies
  
  • Introduction
    
  • Handsome Lake
    
  • Tenskwatawa
    
  • Tecumseh
    
  • Tecumseh
    
  • Pushmataha
    
  • William Weatherford
    

• Introduction: Removal and the Trail of Tears
• Indian Haters and Sympathizers
  
  • H.H. Brackenridge
    
  • George Catlin
    
• The Missionary Impulse
  
  • Introduction
    
  • American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
    
  • Henry Benjamin Whipple
    
  • Civilization Fund Act
    
  • To-Cha Lee and Chu Li-Oa
    
• "Justifying" Removal
  
  • Introduction
    
  • President James Monroe
    
  • President Andrew Jackson
    
  • Edward Everett
    
  • Thomas L. McKenney
    
  • Andrew Jackson
    
  • T. Hartley Crawford
    
  • William Medill
    
• Resistance in the Courts
  
  • Introduction
    
  • Cherokee Nation v. Georgia
    
  • Worcester v. Georgia
    
• Responses to Removal
  
  • Elias Boudinot
    
  • George W. Harkins
    
  • John Ross
    
  • Memorial and Protest of the Cherokee Nation
    
• The Black Hawk and Seminole Wars
  
  • Introduction
    
  • Black Hawk
    
  • Black Hawk
    
  • Coacooche
    

• Introduction: Sitting Bull
• The Reservation Policy
  
  • Luke Lea
    
• Great Sioux Uprising Of 1862
  
  • Big Eagle
    
• The Sand Creek Massacre
  
  • George Bent
    
  • Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War
    
• New Directions in Government Policy
  
  • The Doolittle Committee
    
  • The Indian Peace Commission
    
  • The Board of Indian Commissioners
    
  • Parker Ely S.
    
• The Battle of the Little Big Horn
  
  • George Armstrong General Custer
    
  • Two Moons
    
• Chief Joseph
  
  • Chief Joseph
    
  • Chief Joseph
    
• Wovoka and the Ghost Dance
• The Ghost Dance and the Wounded Knee Massacre
  
  • Red Cloud
    
  • Masse Hadjo
    
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  • Benjamin President Harrison
    

• The Struggle for Self-Determination
  
  • Ben Nighthorse Campbell
    
• Reforming Indian Policy
  
  • Helen Hunt Jackson
    
• The Struggle for Self-Determination
  
  • Luther Standing Chief Bear
    
• Friends of the Indian
• Dawes Act
• The Struggle for Self-Determination
  
  • D.W.C. Duncan
    
  • Theodore Roosevelt
    
• A New Deal for Native Americans
  
  • Meriam Report
    
  • The Wheeler-Howard (Indian Reorganization) Act
    
  • John Collier
    
• House Concurrent Resolution 108
• From Termination to Self-Determination
  
  • Philleo Nash
    
• Declaration of Indian Purpose
• From Termination to Self-Determination
  
  • Lyndon President Johnson
    
• Seizure of Alcatraz Island
  
  • American Indian Center
    

• The Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Today
• Asserting Tribal Sovereignty
  
  • The United Nations Seminar on Indigenous Land Rights and Claims
    
• Asserting Cultural Sovereignty
  
  • Wisconsin Indian Education Association
    
• Preventing the Exploitation of Native American Cultures
  
  • War Against Exploiters of Lakota Spirituality
    
• “The New Buffalo”?
  
  • Bill Clinton
    

This site was updated on 02-Jul-09.