{"product_id":"a-companion-to-american-indian-history-isbn-9781405121316","title":"A Companion to American Indian History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Companion to American Indian History\u003c\/i\u003e captures the thematic breadth of Native American history over the last forty years. Twenty-five original essays by leading scholars in the field, both American Indian and non-American Indian, bring an exciting modern perspective to Native American histories that were at one time related exclusively by Euro-American settlers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eContains 25 original essays by leading experts in Native American history.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eCovers the breadth of American Indian history, including contacts with settlers, religion, family, economy, law, education, gender issues, and culture.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSurveys and evaluates the best scholarship on every important era and topic.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSummarizes current debates and anticipates future concerns.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Contributors vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Historiography 6\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePhilip J. Deloria\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: Contacts 25\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 First Contacts 27\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJohn E. Kicza\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Wag the Imperial Dog: Indians and Overseas Empires in North America, 1650–1776 46\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eGregory Evans Dowd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Health, Disease, and Demography 68\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRussell Thornton\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: Native Practice and Belief 85\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Native American Systems of Knowledge 87\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eClara Sue Kidwell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Native American Spirituality: History, Theory, and Reformulation 103\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLee Irwin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Indians and Christianity 121\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eWillard Hughes Rollings\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Kinship, Family Kindreds, and Community 139\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJay Miller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 American Indian Warfare: The Cycles of Conflict and the Militarization of Native North America 154\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTom Holm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Three: Language, Identity, and Expression 173\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Languages: Linguistic Change and the Study of Indian Languages from Colonial Times to the Present 175\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRegna Darnell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Performative Traditions in American Indian History 193\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eL. G. Moses\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Indigenous Art: Creating Value and Sharing Beauty 209\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNancy Parezo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Native American Literatures 234\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eP. Jane Hafen\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 Wanted: More Histories of Indian Identity 248\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eAlexandra Harmon\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Four: Exchange and Social Relations 267\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Labor and Exchange in American Indian History 269\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePatricia Albers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 The Nature of Conquest: Indians, Americans, and Environmental History 287\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eLouis S. Warren\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Gender in Native America 307\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eBetty Bell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 Métis, Mestizo, and Mixed-Blood 321\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJennifer Brown and Theresa Schenck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 Transforming Outsiders: Captivity, Adoption, and Slavery Reconsidered 339\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003ePauline Turner Strong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Translation and Cultural Brokerage 357\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eEric Hinderaker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Five: Governmental Relations 377\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Federal and State Policies and American Indians 379\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eDonald Fixico\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 Native Americans and the United States, Canada, and Mexico 397\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eR. David Edmunds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 American Indian Education: by Indians versus for Indians 422\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eK. Tsianina Lomawaima\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Indian Law, Sovereignty, and State Law: Native People and the Law 441\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eSidney L. Harring\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Sovereignty 460\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTaiaiake Alfred\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography 475\u003cbr\u003e Index 495\u003c\/p\u003e  \"Philip Deloria and Neal Salisbury have brought together some of the best scholars writing about American Indian peoples and given them topics that both reflect and expand the new scholarship on Indian history and culture. The volume is a virtual compass for readers and scholars interested in American Indians.\" \u003ci\u003eRichard White, Stanford University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"If you need to know where the practice of American Indian history has been; better yet, if you need and want to catch up with where it's going, you will need \u003ci\u003eA Companion to American Indian History\u003c\/i\u003e. Each essay, in its own right, gives an important stylistic and substantive shove to the new writing of American Indian history while it offers the latest, best word in dutiful exegetical historiography. The Companion is the bridge-building, critical, enlightened, reflexive work the editors hoped for, and more, since its bridge-dynamiting challenges to Indian history are graceful and graciously delivered.\" \u003ci\u003eRayna Green, National Museum of American History.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Historians are exceedingly well served by this \u003ci\u003ecompanion\u003c\/i\u003e on Native peoples of the USA, north-western Mexico, Canada and Western Greenland.\" \u003ci\u003eAntiquity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This volume testifies to the strength and comprehensiveness of the \"Blackwell Companions to American History\" series... The selection of writers and topics is excellent, and the quality of the historiographical essays matches or supersedes the spate of recently published books that have attempted similar tasks... The essays go beyond a mere listing of sources to intelligently integrate shifts in interpretation over time and to indicate weaknesses in the existing canon of knowledge. Academic researchers, general readers, and members of Native American communities can all profit from these sophisticated essays... this reference work deserves a place in all libraries, and it should be widely used to spaark further debate.\" \u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I heartily endorse this anthology as a textbook for graduate and undergraduate classes, and as a refresher for anyone seriously interested in Native American studies.\" \u003ci\u003eJohn H. Moore, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003ePhilip J. Deloria\u003c\/b\u003e is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and the Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan. A member of a prominent Dakota family, he received his PhD from Yale University in 1994. In addition to numerous articles and essays, he is the author of \u003ci\u003ePlaying Indian\u003c\/i\u003e (1998).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNeal Salisbury\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of History at Smith College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eManitou and Providence: Indians, Europeans, and the Making of New England\u003c\/i\u003e (1982), and co-author of \u003ci\u003eThe Enduring Vision: A History of the American People\u003c\/i\u003e (fourth edition, 2000).\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003eA Companion to American Indian History\u003c\/i\u003e captures the thematic breadth of Native American history. Twenty-five original essays written by leading scholars, both American Indian and non-American Indian, bring a comprehensive perspective to a history that in the past has been related exclusively by Euro-Americans.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe essays cover a wide range of Indian experiences and practices, including contacts with non-Indians, religion, family, economy, law, education, gender, and culture. They reflect new approaches to Native America drawn from environmental, comparative, and gender history in their exploration of compelling questions regarding performance, identity, cultural brokerage, race and blood, captivity, adoption, and slavery. Each chapter also encourages further reading by including a carefully selected bibliography.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntended for students, scholars, and general readers of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Indian history\u003c\/i\u003e, this timely book is the ideal guide to current and future research.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47988600570085,"sku":"NP9781405121316","price":71.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405121316.jpg?v=1761780921","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/a-companion-to-american-indian-history-isbn-9781405121316","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}