First Americans
A History of Native Peoples, Volume 1 to 1850
Published on 9. March 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-205-05576-0 (ISBN)
Description
Tells the complete story of Native American history, including the native perspective.
First Americans provides a history of Native Americans, from their earliest appearance in North America to the present, that covers the complexity and diversity of their past. The text demonstrates Native Americans' participation in determining their own future and helps students place Native American history in context with national and international developments.
Present throughout the text is the "native voice," giving American Indians' perspectives on historical developments. The text also enforces the reality that native people retain a presence in the U.S. today as a growing population with a rich diversity of roles, ideas, and contributions.
A better teaching and learning experience
This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience-for you and your students. Here's how:
Improve Critical Thinking - To enhance student comprehension, each chapter includes features such as Chronologies, Key Questions, Review Questions, and Recommended Readings.
Engage Students - Special features are included to highlight the native voice and support the themes presented.
Support Instructors - Instructor's Resource Center, Instructor's Manual, Test Bank, MyTest, and PowerPoint presentations are available to be packaged with this text.
For the combined volume of this text, search ISBN-10: 0132069482
For volume two of this text, search ISBN-10: 0205055877
First Americans provides a history of Native Americans, from their earliest appearance in North America to the present, that covers the complexity and diversity of their past. The text demonstrates Native Americans' participation in determining their own future and helps students place Native American history in context with national and international developments.
Present throughout the text is the "native voice," giving American Indians' perspectives on historical developments. The text also enforces the reality that native people retain a presence in the U.S. today as a growing population with a rich diversity of roles, ideas, and contributions.
A better teaching and learning experience
This program will provide a better teaching and learning experience-for you and your students. Here's how:
Improve Critical Thinking - To enhance student comprehension, each chapter includes features such as Chronologies, Key Questions, Review Questions, and Recommended Readings.
Engage Students - Special features are included to highlight the native voice and support the themes presented.
Support Instructors - Instructor's Resource Center, Instructor's Manual, Test Bank, MyTest, and PowerPoint presentations are available to be packaged with this text.
For the combined volume of this text, search ISBN-10: 0132069482
For volume two of this text, search ISBN-10: 0205055877
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 203 mm
Weight
608 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-205-05576-0 (9780205055760)
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Kenneth Townsend earned his Ph.D. in American History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1991, two years after joining the faculty of the Department of History at Coastal Carolina University in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Townsend now serves as chair of the Department of History. He is the author of World War II and the American Indian (2000), South Carolina (2008) and varied articles, and he is revising a book-length manuscript addressing the World War II home front in the Southeastern United States. In summer 2006 Townsend embedded with U.S. Army units in Kabul and Kandahar, Afghanistan and is now
completing a project titled "Shadows of War" that examines the personal imprint of war on soldiers and their families.
Mark A. Nicholas received his PhD from Lehigh University in 2006, and teaches at Florida Atlantic University. With Joel W. Martin, he edited Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010). He has several ongoing projects, including a book about the Seneca Indians for Michigan State University. Press and a book about the Shawnees in Kansas for University of Arizona Press.
completing a project titled "Shadows of War" that examines the personal imprint of war on soldiers and their families.
Mark A. Nicholas received his PhD from Lehigh University in 2006, and teaches at Florida Atlantic University. With Joel W. Martin, he edited Native Americans, Christianity, and the Reshaping of the American Religious Landscape (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010). He has several ongoing projects, including a book about the Seneca Indians for Michigan State University. Press and a book about the Shawnees in Kansas for University of Arizona Press.
Content
Found in this section:
1. Brief Table of Contents
2. Full Table of Contents
1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Native North America before European Contact
Chapter 2 Native Peoples and European Newcomers, 982-1585
Chapter 3 Spanish Borderlands, 1527-1758
Chapter 4 Seventeenth-Century Eastern Woodlands, 1607-1689
Chapter 5 Empire, 1700-1763
Chapter 6 The Indians' Revolution, 1763-1814
Chapter 7 Removal, 1801-1846
Chapter 8 Western Indians and the United States, 1800-1850
2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Supplementary Material
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Native North America Before European Contact
Stories versus Science
Beginnings
We Were Always Here
The Scientific Evidence
Reading History The Kwakiutl Story of the Deluge
Clovis and Folsom Cultures
Changes in the West
California Indians
The Northwest
The Great Basin and the Plains
Agriculture-Based Societies in the Southwest
Cultural Diversity and the Arrival of Maize
The "Chaco Phenomenon"
Hohokam and Mesa Verde Cultures
Seeing History Anasazi Sites Compared
Eastern Woodlands
Early Eastern Woodlands Traditions
Adena and Hopewell Cultures
Mississipian Chiefdoms
The Iroquois
Seeing History Chiefdoms Maintaining Power Through Images
Reading History The Iroquois Origin Story
Conclusion
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
Native American History Online
Chapter 2: Native Peoples and European Newcomers, 982-1590
Conquests, Colonies, and Contradictions
An Iberian New World Order
Christopher Columbus and the West Indies: The Tainos Encounter Spaniards
The Maya, Aztec, and Inca Worlds
Maya
Chichen Itza and the Mayan City-States
Maya Women and the City-States
Aztecs
Pre-Aztec States in Mexico
Rise of the Aztec Empire
Tenochtitlan
Aztec Gods and Religion
Aztec Women in a Warrior Culture
Inca
Growth of the Inca State
Inca Rule
The Power of Inca Women
Spanish Conquest, Spanish Rule
Fall of Tenochtitlan
Profile Malintzin, A Woman Negotiates with the Aztecs
Reading History A Woman's Voice From
Postconquest Mexico: Ana Juana From Culhuacan
Conquest of the Incas
Profile Titu Cusi Yupanqui, an Inca Elite After Conquest
Conquest of the Maya
Reading History A Voice from the Mayan New
World Inquisition: Francisco Chuc of Sahcaba, August 11, 1562
French and English Newcomers
Pre-Columbian Encounters in North America: The Norse
Early Expeditions to the Northeast
Native Peoples and the French along the St. Lawrence River
Algonquians and the English at Roanoke
Profile Manteo, the Roanoke Interpreter
Conclusion
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
Native American History Online
Chapter 3: Spanish Borderlands, 1527-1758
On the Fringes
La Florida: A Maritime Borderland
The Indian Landscape of La Florida
Friars and Chiefdoms
Mission Life
Rebellion and Decline
Southeast Chiefdoms and Hernando De Soto
The Southwest Borderlands
Women and Caddoan Power
The Texas Mission-Presidio Complex
The World of the Pueblos
New Power in the Sword: The Spanish Invasion
New Power in the Church: The Franciscan Pueblo Missions
New Power in Governance: Encomenderos and Colonial Rule
Rebellion: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
Reading History Declaration of the Indian, Juan.
Place on the Rio del Norte, December, 18, 1681
Northern Mining Frontiers
Serrano Peoples: Native Life in Sonora
Miners, Ranchers, and Moving Frontiers
Missionaries: Serrano Peoples and the Jesuits
Wanderers and Communities: Native Resistance to Spanish Rule
Early Borderlands Connections in the Southwest
Horses and Networks of Masculine Trade and Warfare
The Rise of the Comanches
Conclusion
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
Native American History Online
Chapter 4: Seventeenth-Century Eastern Woodlands, 1607-1689
Worlds Apart
Tsenacommacah
The Rise of the Powhatan Confederacy
Powhatan and the English: Trade and Conflict
Indian War and the Emergence of Virginia
Profile Pocahontas in the Atlantic World
Southern New England Indians Encounter the English
Native Americans and Plymouth Bay
New England Indians Face English Expansion
Christianity and the Praying Town Model
Mohegans
Confederacies, Empires, and Villages
The Huron Ascendancy
War and Mourning: Five Nations' Ferocity
Middle Grounding: The Pays d'en haut
Transformation of the Five Nations
Profile Kateri Tekakwitha
Maturing Colonies Ending a Century in Conflict: Metacom's War and Bacon's Rebellion
Metacom's War
Reading History Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative, 1682
Bacon's Rebellion
Conclusion
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
Native American History Online
Chapter 5: Empire, 1700-1763
Empires, a Chief, and a Prophet
Indians and Empires in the Northeast
Deerfield on the Edge of Empire
Reading History John Williams, Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion, 1774
Returning to New France and Shifting Strategies
New England Indians "Behind the Frontier"
Land and Indian Communities
Native Peoples and the Economics of the British Empire in New England
Religion, Education, and Indian Sovereignty
Profile The Transient Life of Sarah Gardner, Indian Woman
Reading History Samson Occom Tells His Story, 1768
A Mid-Atlantic Frontier
Delawares and the Quest for Land
The Pennsylvania Backcountry
The Indians' "Great Awakening" in Pennsylvania
Profile Andrew Montour: The Frontier Negotiator
Reading History Esther: a Mahican-Moravian
Multitribal Zones and Imperial Pressure in the South
Trading Slaves and Deerskins
Native Americans and the Costs of French Expansion into the Lower Mississippi Valley
Tuscarora and Yamasee Wars and Breaking with the British
Profile Mary Musgrove: A Creek Woman Between Worlds
The Seven Years' War and Indian Perspectives on Empire
The Redefinition of Empire and Racial Consciousness
Seeing History Neolin's Master of Life
Conclusion
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
Native American History Online
Chapter 6: The Indians' Revolution, 1763-1814
A Disease, a Continent, and a Revolution
The American Revolution
Questions of Iroquois Neutrality
For Liberty and Independence: New England Indians
Profile Molly Brant, an Iroquois Woman and British Loyalist
Dunmore's War and the Old Northwest
The South and Choosing Sides
Seeing History A Draught of the Cherokee Country by Lientenant Henry Timberlake, 1762
Native American Recovery, Native American Resistance, 1783-1814
The Revolution Continues: Treaties and Bloody Years
The Civilization Program
Prophets and War
Profile Black Hoof, Shawnee Annuity Chief
Reading History Hansome Lake's First Vision, 1799
Profile Hillis Hadjo, The Creek Prophet
Western Revolutions
The Borderlands Revolution: Comancheria
Comancheria: Wealth and Empire
Alta California: Missionary Revolutions
Mission Life
Profile Indian Leaders in the Franciscan Missions
Conclusion
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
Native American History Online
Chapter 7: Removal, 1801-1846
Do You Want Our Land?
Southern Removal
Cherokee "Civilization"
Cherokees Challenged
Reading History The Removal Act of 1830
Cherokee Removal
The Creek Road to Oklahoma
Choctaw Removal
Seeing History Nanih Waiya
Chickasaws Head West
Profile Pushmataha, Choctaw Leader Caught between Worlds
Resisting Removal
Seminoles Fight
Profile Coacoochee, the Mexican Seminole
The Black Hawk War
Reading History Black Hawk's Autobiography
Removal from the North
Profile William Apess, a Pequot Helps the Mashpee
Restoring Sovereignty in the Indian Territory
Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation
Resurgence among Indians from the South
Indian Territory and the "Peculiar Institution" of Slavery
Conclusion
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
Native American History Online
Chapter 8: Western Indians and the United States, 1800-1850
Winning or Losing the West
Native Americans, the Corps of Discovery, and Constructing Empire
The Plains and Missouri River Indians
Pacific Northwest Indians
Reading History James P. Rhonda, The Truth About Sacagawea
The Pacific as the West
Russian America
Tlingit Culture, Resistance, and Competition
Rocky Mountain Fur Trading and the Pacific Northwest
Profile Smohalla, the Prophet
Winning or Losing the West?
The Transformation of California
Reading History Isadora: Widow of the Prince of Solano
California Indians and American Manifest Destiny
California's "Sexual Frontier"
ProfileIshi, the Last Yahi Standing
Texas Indians in Upheaval
Profile Andele, the Mexican-Kiowa Captive
The Southwest Borderlands in Transition
Reading History Andele's Account
Conclusion
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
Native American History Online
Appendix
Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts
Bibliography
Photo & Text Credits
Index
1. Brief Table of Contents
2. Full Table of Contents
1. BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1 Native North America before European Contact
Chapter 2 Native Peoples and European Newcomers, 982-1585
Chapter 3 Spanish Borderlands, 1527-1758
Chapter 4 Seventeenth-Century Eastern Woodlands, 1607-1689
Chapter 5 Empire, 1700-1763
Chapter 6 The Indians' Revolution, 1763-1814
Chapter 7 Removal, 1801-1846
Chapter 8 Western Indians and the United States, 1800-1850
2. FULL TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Supplementary Material
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
Chapter 1: Native North America Before European Contact
Stories versus Science
Beginnings
We Were Always Here
The Scientific Evidence
Reading History The Kwakiutl Story of the Deluge
Clovis and Folsom Cultures
Changes in the West
California Indians
The Northwest
The Great Basin and the Plains
Agriculture-Based Societies in the Southwest
Cultural Diversity and the Arrival of Maize
The "Chaco Phenomenon"
Hohokam and Mesa Verde Cultures
Seeing History Anasazi Sites Compared
Eastern Woodlands
Early Eastern Woodlands Traditions
Adena and Hopewell Cultures
Mississipian Chiefdoms
The Iroquois
Seeing History Chiefdoms Maintaining Power Through Images
Reading History The Iroquois Origin Story
Conclusion
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
Native American History Online
Chapter 2: Native Peoples and European Newcomers, 982-1590
Conquests, Colonies, and Contradictions
An Iberian New World Order
Christopher Columbus and the West Indies: The Tainos Encounter Spaniards
The Maya, Aztec, and Inca Worlds
Maya
Chichen Itza and the Mayan City-States
Maya Women and the City-States
Aztecs
Pre-Aztec States in Mexico
Rise of the Aztec Empire
Tenochtitlan
Aztec Gods and Religion
Aztec Women in a Warrior Culture
Inca
Growth of the Inca State
Inca Rule
The Power of Inca Women
Spanish Conquest, Spanish Rule
Fall of Tenochtitlan
Profile Malintzin, A Woman Negotiates with the Aztecs
Reading History A Woman's Voice From
Postconquest Mexico: Ana Juana From Culhuacan
Conquest of the Incas
Profile Titu Cusi Yupanqui, an Inca Elite After Conquest
Conquest of the Maya
Reading History A Voice from the Mayan New
World Inquisition: Francisco Chuc of Sahcaba, August 11, 1562
French and English Newcomers
Pre-Columbian Encounters in North America: The Norse
Early Expeditions to the Northeast
Native Peoples and the French along the St. Lawrence River
Algonquians and the English at Roanoke
Profile Manteo, the Roanoke Interpreter
Conclusion
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
Native American History Online
Chapter 3: Spanish Borderlands, 1527-1758
On the Fringes
La Florida: A Maritime Borderland
The Indian Landscape of La Florida
Friars and Chiefdoms
Mission Life
Rebellion and Decline
Southeast Chiefdoms and Hernando De Soto
The Southwest Borderlands
Women and Caddoan Power
The Texas Mission-Presidio Complex
The World of the Pueblos
New Power in the Sword: The Spanish Invasion
New Power in the Church: The Franciscan Pueblo Missions
New Power in Governance: Encomenderos and Colonial Rule
Rebellion: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
Reading History Declaration of the Indian, Juan.
Place on the Rio del Norte, December, 18, 1681
Northern Mining Frontiers
Serrano Peoples: Native Life in Sonora
Miners, Ranchers, and Moving Frontiers
Missionaries: Serrano Peoples and the Jesuits
Wanderers and Communities: Native Resistance to Spanish Rule
Early Borderlands Connections in the Southwest
Horses and Networks of Masculine Trade and Warfare
The Rise of the Comanches
Conclusion
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
Native American History Online
Chapter 4: Seventeenth-Century Eastern Woodlands, 1607-1689
Worlds Apart
Tsenacommacah
The Rise of the Powhatan Confederacy
Powhatan and the English: Trade and Conflict
Indian War and the Emergence of Virginia
Profile Pocahontas in the Atlantic World
Southern New England Indians Encounter the English
Native Americans and Plymouth Bay
New England Indians Face English Expansion
Christianity and the Praying Town Model
Mohegans
Confederacies, Empires, and Villages
The Huron Ascendancy
War and Mourning: Five Nations' Ferocity
Middle Grounding: The Pays d'en haut
Transformation of the Five Nations
Profile Kateri Tekakwitha
Maturing Colonies Ending a Century in Conflict: Metacom's War and Bacon's Rebellion
Metacom's War
Reading History Mary Rowlandson's Captivity Narrative, 1682
Bacon's Rebellion
Conclusion
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
Native American History Online
Chapter 5: Empire, 1700-1763
Empires, a Chief, and a Prophet
Indians and Empires in the Northeast
Deerfield on the Edge of Empire
Reading History John Williams, Redeemed Captive Returning to Zion, 1774
Returning to New France and Shifting Strategies
New England Indians "Behind the Frontier"
Land and Indian Communities
Native Peoples and the Economics of the British Empire in New England
Religion, Education, and Indian Sovereignty
Profile The Transient Life of Sarah Gardner, Indian Woman
Reading History Samson Occom Tells His Story, 1768
A Mid-Atlantic Frontier
Delawares and the Quest for Land
The Pennsylvania Backcountry
The Indians' "Great Awakening" in Pennsylvania
Profile Andrew Montour: The Frontier Negotiator
Reading History Esther: a Mahican-Moravian
Multitribal Zones and Imperial Pressure in the South
Trading Slaves and Deerskins
Native Americans and the Costs of French Expansion into the Lower Mississippi Valley
Tuscarora and Yamasee Wars and Breaking with the British
Profile Mary Musgrove: A Creek Woman Between Worlds
The Seven Years' War and Indian Perspectives on Empire
The Redefinition of Empire and Racial Consciousness
Seeing History Neolin's Master of Life
Conclusion
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
Native American History Online
Chapter 6: The Indians' Revolution, 1763-1814
A Disease, a Continent, and a Revolution
The American Revolution
Questions of Iroquois Neutrality
For Liberty and Independence: New England Indians
Profile Molly Brant, an Iroquois Woman and British Loyalist
Dunmore's War and the Old Northwest
The South and Choosing Sides
Seeing History A Draught of the Cherokee Country by Lientenant Henry Timberlake, 1762
Native American Recovery, Native American Resistance, 1783-1814
The Revolution Continues: Treaties and Bloody Years
The Civilization Program
Prophets and War
Profile Black Hoof, Shawnee Annuity Chief
Reading History Hansome Lake's First Vision, 1799
Profile Hillis Hadjo, The Creek Prophet
Western Revolutions
The Borderlands Revolution: Comancheria
Comancheria: Wealth and Empire
Alta California: Missionary Revolutions
Mission Life
Profile Indian Leaders in the Franciscan Missions
Conclusion
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
Native American History Online
Chapter 7: Removal, 1801-1846
Do You Want Our Land?
Southern Removal
Cherokee "Civilization"
Cherokees Challenged
Reading History The Removal Act of 1830
Cherokee Removal
The Creek Road to Oklahoma
Choctaw Removal
Seeing History Nanih Waiya
Chickasaws Head West
Profile Pushmataha, Choctaw Leader Caught between Worlds
Resisting Removal
Seminoles Fight
Profile Coacoochee, the Mexican Seminole
The Black Hawk War
Reading History Black Hawk's Autobiography
Removal from the North
Profile William Apess, a Pequot Helps the Mashpee
Restoring Sovereignty in the Indian Territory
Rebuilding the Cherokee Nation
Resurgence among Indians from the South
Indian Territory and the "Peculiar Institution" of Slavery
Conclusion
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
Native American History Online
Chapter 8: Western Indians and the United States, 1800-1850
Winning or Losing the West
Native Americans, the Corps of Discovery, and Constructing Empire
The Plains and Missouri River Indians
Pacific Northwest Indians
Reading History James P. Rhonda, The Truth About Sacagawea
The Pacific as the West
Russian America
Tlingit Culture, Resistance, and Competition
Rocky Mountain Fur Trading and the Pacific Northwest
Profile Smohalla, the Prophet
Winning or Losing the West?
The Transformation of California
Reading History Isadora: Widow of the Prince of Solano
California Indians and American Manifest Destiny
California's "Sexual Frontier"
ProfileIshi, the Last Yahi Standing
Texas Indians in Upheaval
Profile Andele, the Mexican-Kiowa Captive
The Southwest Borderlands in Transition
Reading History Andele's Account
Conclusion
Review Questions
Recommended Readings
Native American History Online
Appendix
Glossary of Key Terms and Concepts
Bibliography
Photo & Text Credits
Index