Native American Testimony : A Chronicle of Indian and White Relations from Prophecy to the Present, 1492-1992 Book

	Foreword
	Introduction
Pt. 1	First Encounter to Dispossession	1
Ch. 1	Premonitions and Prophecies	3
1	He Will Use Any Means to Get What He Wants	6
2	White Rabbit Got Lotsa Everything	7
3	Visitors from Heaven	10
4	Thunder's Dream Comes True	12
5	Easy Life of the Gray-Eyed	14
6	The Spider's Web	15
Ch. 2	Face to Face	18
1	Their Wondrous Works and Ways	21
2	Before They Got Thick	24
3	Silmoodawa Gives a Complete Performance	25
4	A Different Kind of Man	26
5	I Hid Myself and Watched	29
Ch. 3	Exchange Between Worlds	32
1	Thunder, Dizzying Liquid, and Cups That Do Not Grow	36
2	Keep Your Presents	38
3	Give Us Good Goods	40
4	You Rot the Guts of Our Young Men	41
5	Some Strange Animal	42
6	Buttocks Bags and Green Coffee Bread	45
7	The Bewitched Pale Man	47
Ch. 4	Bearers of the Cross	49
1	Burn the Temples, Break Up the Bells	54
2	A Good Indian's Dilemma	57
3	We Never Quarrel About Religion	57
4	Janitin Is Named Jesus	58
5	The Freedom to Work	60
6	A Shaman Obeys	63
7	Always Give Blessings and Be Thankful	64
Ch. 5	Living Beside Each Other	68
1	Remove the Cause of Our Uneasiness	72
2	Mary Jemison Becomes an Iroquois	73
3	Our Very Good Friend Kirk	78
4	The Frenchman Dreams Himself Home	80
5	Incident at Boyer Creek	82
6	Our Stock of Food and Clothes	85
7	If I Could See This Thing	87
Ch. 6	The Long Resistance	90
1	We Must Be United	95
2	Black Hawk Stands Alone	98
3	Blood Scattered Like Water	101
4	Young Men, Go Out and Fight Them	106
5	Geronimo Puts Down the Gun	112
Ch. 7	The Treaty Trail	117
1	Let Us Examine the Facts	121
2	Osceola Determined	124
3	My Son, Stop Your Ears	129
4	We Are Not Children	133
5	Plenty Coups Travels to Washington	140
Ch. 8	Exiles in their Own Land	145
1	Plea from the Chickasaw	151
2	Tushpa Crosses the Mississippi	152
3	Corralling the Navajo	157
4	The Uprooted Winnebago	161
5	Standing Bear's Odyssey	164
Ch. 9	The Nation's Hoop is Broken and Scattered	170
1	The Buffalo Go	174
2	Take Care of Me	176
3	I Am Alone	176
4	I Have Spoken	178
5	I Want to Look for My Children	180
6	No Dawn to the East	181
7	Gone Forever	182
8	This Awful Loneliness	184
9	A Wish	184
Pt. 2	Reservation to Resurgence	185
Ch. 10	The Very Small Islands	187
1	Treated Better by Wolves	193
2	We Lost Everything	196
3	The Way Agents Get Rich	198
4	The Career of Ely Parker	202
5	Annie Makes Her Choice	204
6	We Had Everything to Learn	207
Ch. 11	To Learn Another Way	213
1	Responsive and Resistant Students	218
2	He Is Not One of Us	221
3	What Harm Is in Our Sun-dance?	224
4	We Will Dance	225
5	Dr. Fewkes Plays Like a Child	227
6	Judge Wooden Leg Keeps One Wife	229
Ch. 12	The Flood has Come	232
1	A House of Our Own	238
2	Luther's Father Stands Alone	240
3	Half White and Half Indian	244
4	We Want to Tell You Something	246
5	He-na Tom, the Hoodwinker	251
6	The Dead Did Not Return	253
Ch. 13	Hearts on the Ground	256
1	Life on the Checkerboard	262
2	Big Man's Rules and Laws	263
3	The Outrage of Allotment	265
4	Farming and Futility	267
5	The Hopi Push of War	271
Ch. 14	A Twentieth-Century Indian Voice	275
1	The Best and the Brightest	282
2	Laughing at Themselves	289
3	From Wassaja to Montezuma	291
4	Suddenly a Gate	295
5	Following the Medicine	296
6	Scandal in Oklahoma	300
Ch. 15	Interlude of Hope	304
1	Hard Times in Sioux Country	311
2	Neglect Along the Klamath	313
3	The Twenties at San Juan	316
4	Commissioner Collier Is on Our Side	320
5	Resisting the Indian New Deal	324
6	Debate Over IRA	327
7	Reducing Navajo Sheep	330
Ch. 16	In and Out of the Mainstream	332
1	Counting Coup in World War Two	338
2	A Code Talker Comes Home	341
3	The Menominees Are Terminated	344
4	On Relocation	348
5	Stopping Erosion	354
Ch. 17	Let's Raise Some Hell	355
1	The New Indian Wars	362
2	Invading Alcatraz	367
3	Discovery: The Beeah Tribe	371
4	Birth of AIM	372
5	Confrontation or Negotiation	376
Ch. 18	So Long as this Land Exists	381
1	Going Back	388
2	Hopis and the Love Generation	390
3	Eskimos and "The Act"	393
4	Dark Sky Over Black Mesa	397
5	Indian Children in Crisis	401
Ch. 19	It's Hard to be Indian	404
1	What Am I	411
2	Alone and Very Scared	413
3	Notes from Indian Country	418
4	Before and After Gambling	420
5	Sovereignty Revitalized	422
6	Restoring Life to the Dead	425
7	First and Last Eskimos	429
8	Resistance at Oka	433
9	Confronting Columbus Again	437
Ch. 20	Towards a Native Millennium	441
1	Thorns in the Side	448
2	History Repeating Itself	450
3	Old Names in Charge	452
4	Different Programs	456
5	Reuniting with Beauty	460
6	Speedboat or Canoe?	462
7	An Eagle Nation	465
8	The End of the World	469
	Notes on Sources	473
	Illustration Credits	493
	Index	495