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Competing voices from native America

Author: Dewi Ioan Ball; Joy Porter
Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood Press, 2009.
Series: Fighting words (Oxford, England)
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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A selection of short primary-source accounts from a variety of sources, including newspaper reports, Congressional documents, government documents, and Indian tribal sources, highlighting conflicts and controversies and presenting the opposing views of Native and non-Native Americans.
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dewi Ioan Ball; Joy Porter
ISBN: 9781846450167 1846450160
OCLC Number: 265733755
Description: xvii, 445 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Origins of the world and 'discovery' --
Spirituality and faith, 1550-1805 --
Land and the environment, 1500s-1810 --
War and revolution, 1675-1800s --
Removal era, 1800s-1840s --
Three key events in Western expansion : Sand Creek (1864), Little Big Horn (1876), and Wounded Knee (1890) --
Era of assimilation and allotment, 1887-1934 --
Indian New Deal era, 1928-1941 --
Termination era, 1945-1970 --
Key events of the Red Power era : Alcatraz (1969), Trail of Broken Treaties and the occupation of the BIA headquarters (1972) and Wounded Knee (1973) --
Leonard Peltier --
Contemporary federal Indian law and jurisdiction --
Indian gaming --
Indian representation, museums and the repatriation of Indian bones --
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Series Title: Fighting words (Oxford, England)
Responsibility: [edited by] Dewi Ioan Ball and Joy Porter.

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