Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-2000 [Paperback]

From the author of How the World Moves--the classic collection of more than 500 years of Native American History

In a series of powerful and moving documents, anthropologist Peter Nabokov presents a history of Native American and white relations as seen though Indian eyes and told through Indian voices. Beginning with the Indians' first encounters with European explorers, traders, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers to the challenges confronting Native American culture today, Native American Testimony spans five hundred years of interchange between the two peoples. Drawing from a wide range of sources--traditional narratives, Indian autobiographies, government transcripts, firsthand interviews, and more--Nabokov has assembled a remarkably rich and vivid collection, representing nothing less than an alternate history of North America.Foreword by Vine Deloria, Jr.
Introduction
Part One: First Encounter to Dispossession
Chapter 1. Premonitions and Prophecies
1. He Will Use Any Means to Get What He Wants (Dan Katchongva, Hopi)
2. White Rabbit Got Lotsa Everything (Lucy Young, Wintu)
3. Visitors from Heaven (Norval Morriseau, Ojibway)
4. Thunder's Dream Comes True (Black Hawk, Sauk)
5. Easy Life of the Gray-Eyed (James Paytiamo, Acoma Pueblo)
6. The Spider's Web (Black Elk, Oglala Sioux)
Chapter 2. Face to Face
1. Their Wondrous Works and Ways (Charles Alexander Eastman, Santee Sioux)
2. Before They Got Thick (Percy Bigmouth, Lipan Apache)
3. Silmoodawa Gives a Complete Performance (Anonymous, Micmac)
4. A Different Kind of Man (First Boy, Assiniboine)
5. I Hid Myself and Watched (Pretty Shield, Crow; Jaime, Navajo)
Chapter 3. Exchange Between Worlds
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