Native Voices Sources in the Native American Past, Volumes 1-2 [Paperback]

Mark A. Nicholas received his Ph.D from Lehigh University in 2006. He is finishing a co-edited volume for the University of North Carolina Press, a book about the Seneca Indians for Michigan State University Press and a book about the Shawnees in Kansas for University of Arizona Press.

“The three greatest strengths of this work are 1) its breadth of coverage; 2) the chapter introductions…and 3) the inclusion of images as primary sources.”

         -Tony Gulig, University of Wisconsin

 

“The chapters are coherent with a good selection of [documents]; The chapters shine light on the history of North America that is relatively unknown and very interesting with great historical implications.”

         -Eric Mayer, Victor Valley College

 

 

Chapter 1 History from the Native American Point of View
Chapter 2 Natives and Newcomers: Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
Chapter 3 The Seventeenth Century Spanish Borderlands and Eastern Woodlands
Chapter 4 The Eighteenth Century to 1763 in Times of Peace and War
Chapter 5 The Indians' Revolution, 1763-1814: Across the Continent
Chapter 6 A New Order and Expansion West 1820-1850
Chapter 7 Native Americans, the Civil War, and the War for the West, 1850-1877
Chapter 8 Assimilation or Extinction, 1860-1900
Chapter 9 Perseverance and Revival
Chapter 10 Native Americans, the Great Depression and World War II, and the Reorganization of Indian Country, 1930-1950
Chapter 11 Resurgent Indians, 1960-1980
Chapter 12 Native Americans into the Twenty First CenturyIntegrates Native American perspectives into American history    Native Voices is a source reader that covers tlcí