American nations : encounters in Indian country, 1850 to the present / edited by Frederick E. Hoxie, Peter C. Mancall, and James H. Merrell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Agency Amid Conquest, 1850-1900. 1. The Navajo at Bosque Redondo: Cooperation, Resistance, and Initiative, 1864-1868 / Katherine M. B. Osburn. 2. Crazy Horse and the End of the Great Sioux War / Kingsley M. Bray. 3. "I See What I Have Done": The Life and Murder Trial of Xwelas, a S'Klallam Woman / Coll-Peter Thrush and Robert H. Keller, Jr. -- Pt. II. Reservation Cultures, 1880-1930. 4. Signatures and Thumbprints: Ethnicity among the White Earth Anishinaabeg, 1889-1920 / Melissa L. Meyer. 5. Naalyehe Ba-Hooghan - "House of Merchandise": The Navajo Trading Post as an Institution of Cultural Change, 1900-1930 / Robert S. McPherson. 6. The Birth of the Reservation: Making the Modern Individual among the Lakota / Thomas Biolsi -- Pt. III. Gender and Culture Change. 7. "Right in the Midst of My Own People": Native American Women and the Field Matron Program / Lisa E. Emmerich.

8. "If We Get the Girls, We Get the Race": Missionary Education of Native American Girls / Carol Devens. 9. Making Savages of Us All: White Women, Pueblo Indians, and the Controversy over Indian Dances in the 1920s / Margaret D. Jacobs -- Pt. IV. Religious Innovation and Survival. 10. Reservation Leadership and the Progressive-Traditional Dichotomy: William Wash and the Northern Utes, 1865-1928 / David Rich Lewis. 11. Red Lilac of the Cayugas: Traditional Indian Law and Culture Conflict in a Witchcraft Trial in Buffalo, New York, 1930 / Sidney L. Harring. 12. Shamanism and Christianity: Modern Tlingit Elders Look at the Past / Sergei Kan -- Pt. V. Cultural and Political Transformations, 1900-1950. 13. Exploring a Cultural Borderland: Native American Journeys of Discovery in the Early Twentieth Century / Frederick E. Hoxie. 14. The Tribal Reorganization of the Stockbridge-Munsee: Essential Conditions in the Re-Creation of a Native American Community, 1930-1942 / John C. Savagian.

15. Jim Crow in Alaska: The Passage of the Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945 / Terrence M. Cole -- Pt. VI. Indian Activism and Cultural Resurgence. 16. American Indian Ethnic Renewal: Politics and the Resurgence of Identity / Joane Nagel. 17. "We Don't Want Your Rations, We Want This Dance": The Changing Use of Song and Dance on the Southern Plains / Clyde Ellis. 18. The Bloody Wake of Alcatraz: Political Repression of the American Indian Movement during the 1970s / Ward Churchill. 19. Riding the Paper Tiger / Robert L. Bee -- Pt. VII. Perspectives on Native America, 2000. 20. "Our Lives Have Been Transmuted, Changed Forever" / Fergus M. Bordewich. 21. Research, Redskins, and Reality / Vine Deloria, Jr. 22. Gaming and Recent American Indian Economic Development / Joseph G. Jorgensen. 23. Native Americans in America: A Theoretical and Historical Overview / Peter d'Errico.