The longest trail : writings on American Indian history, culture, and politics

Author

Alvin M Josephy

Call Number

• 970.00497 J837 (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Vintage Books, A Division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2015.

Physical Description

xiv, 530 pages ; 21 cm

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

• Part I. Putting Indians into American history. Listening to Indians: a commentary / by Clifford Trafzer
• A continent awakes
• Indians of the sound
• Tecumseh, the greatest Indian
• The Hudson's Bay Company and the American Indians
• "A most satisfactory council"
• Red morning in Minnesota
• The last stand of Chief Joseph
• Part II. Indians and the natural world. Native endurance: a connection to place: a commentary / by Jaime Pinkham
• Cornplanter, can you swim? The Native Americans' fight to hold onto their land base
• "Like giving heroin to an addict": the reassertion of Native American water rights
• The great northwest fishing war
• The Hopi way
• Part III. The miracle of Indian survival. Let's make the deal: Indian country's history of success: a commentary / by Mark Trahant
• The American Indian and the Bureau of Indian Affairs
• The historical and cultural context of White-Native American conflicts
• "You are on Indian land!".