Format:
1 online resource (368 pages)
ISBN:
9780802197467
Content:
Now available in paperback, The Earth Shall Weep is a groundbreaking, critically acclaimed history of the Native American peoples. Combining traditional historical sources with new insights from ethnography, archaeology, Indian oral tradition, and years of his original research, James Wilson weaves a historical narrative that puts Native Americans at the center of their struggle for survival against the tide of invading European peoples and cultures. The Earth Shall Weep charts the collision course between Euro-Americans and the indigenous people of the continent, from the early interactions at English settlements on the Atlantic coast, through successive centuries of encroachment and outright warfare, to the new political force of the Native American activists of today. It is a clash that would ultimately result in the reduction of the Native American population from an estimated seven to ten million to 250,000 over a span of four hundred years, and change the face of the continent forever. A tour de force of narrative history, The Earth Shall Weep is a powerful, moving telling of the story of Native Americans that has become the new standard for future work in the field.
Content:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- A Note About Terminology -- Prologue -- I: Origins -- 1. This is How It Was: Two Views of History -- 2. Contact: In the Balance -- II: Invasion -- 3. Northeast: One 'You will have the worst by our absence' -- 4. Northeast: Two 'A new found Golgotha' -- 5. New York and the 'Ohio Country' 'We shall not be like father and son, but like brothers' -- 6. Southeast 'Get a little further: you are too near me' -- 7. Southwest Return of the white brother -- 8. The Far West The burning world -- 9. The Great Plains The heart of everything that is -- III: Internal Frontiers -- 10. Kill the Indian to Save the Man Assimilation -- 11. New Deal and Termination 'Let none but the Indian answer' -- 12. The New Indians -- Epilogue -- Sources and Further Reading -- Permissions Acknowledgements -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780802136800
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780802136800
Language:
English
