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

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ISBN: 9780345806918
ISBN: 0345806913
Physical Description: print
xiv, 530 pages ; 21 cm
Publisher: New York : Vintage Books, A Division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2015.
Copyright: ©2015

General Note:	"A Vintage original" -- title page verso
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	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!".