Native American Perspectives, Grades 7-12 a Historical Reader: Nextext Historical Reader

by Holt McDougal

Nearly 500 years of Native-American relations with white Americans are chronicled in this book of documents. A wide range of sources presents the Native-American perspective on this history. Beginning with the first encounters and moving through the colonial period, the Trail of Tears, the Great Plains Wars, Wounded Knee, the establishment of reservations, and the changing ears of official Indian policy to present day issues, the Native American voice speaks out. This collection represents many different Native American groups and regions. This Reader:

* offers historical perspectives on Native American experiences
* documents Native Americans with print and photographs


Contents: Prophecy and contact: Prophecies of our grandparents (possibly pre-1600) / by a storyteller (Zuni) -- Arrival of the white men (early 1600s to late 1700s) / traditional legends (Micmac, Chinook) -- Cheyenne memory (1700s) / by John Stands in Timber (Cheyenne) -- My sun is set / Anonymous -- Religion: Code of Handsome Lake (1799) / by Chief Jacob Thomas (Cayuga) -- Cruelty at the San Miguel mission (1820s) / by Janitin (Kamia) -- Lecture to missionary Cram (1828) / by Red Jacket (Seneca) -- Coming of the black robes (1841) / by Julia Antelope Nicodemus (Coeur d/Alene) -- Wovoka, the Paiute messiah (1889) / by Porcupine (Cheyenne) -- Resistance: Eyewitness to the Pueblo uprising (1680) / by Pedro Naranjo (Pueblo) -- Plea to the Choctaws and the Chickasaws (1811) / by Tecumseh (Shawnee) -- Great Sioux uprising (1862) / by Big Eagle (Santee Sioux) -- Surrender speech (1872) / by Cochise (Chiricahua Apache). Destruction by policy and practice: Iroquois and the American Revolution (1775-1779) / by Mary Jemison -- Cherokee removal (1817-1839) / by Cherokee women and Rebecca Neugin (Cherokee) -- Sand Creek massacre (1864) / by George Bent (Cheyenne) -- History of Nez Perce (1880) / by James Reuben (Nez Perce) -- from A short history of the Indians of the U.S. (1900) / by Francis La Flesche (Omaha) -- Hopi push of war (1906) / by Helen Sekaquaptewa (Hopi) -- We missed the bus (1948) / by George Peequaquat (Saulteaux-Ojibway) -- Survival: Evaluating the Indian Reorganization Act (1930s) / by Alfred DuBray (Ho-Chunk) and Ramon Roubideaux (Sioux) -- Surviving in the cities (mid-twentieth century) / by Belle Jean Francis (Athabascan) and Benny Bearskin (Winnebago) -- On an Indian reservation: how colonialism works (1966) / by Robert K. Thomas (Cherokee) -- Siege at Wounded Knee (1973) / by Mary Crow Dog (Lakota) -- Brief history of the American Indian Movement (1968 to the present) / by AIM -- Mr. President: protect the earth (1993) / by Corbin Harney (Shoshone) -- On Columbus's quincentennial (1992) / by N. Scott Momaday (Kiowa).

224 pages, Hardcover

First published August 14, 2000

About the author

Holt McDougal is an American publishing company, a division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, that specializes in textbooks for use in high schools.