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Tables of Contents for Native American Testimony
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Foreword
xvii
Vine Deloria, Jr.
Introduction
xxi
PART ONE FIRST ENCOUNTER TO DISPOSSESSION
1
184
Premonitions And Prophecies
3
15
He Will Use Any Means to Get What He Wants
6
1
Dan Katchongva
White Rabbit Got Lotsa Everything
7
3
Lucy Young
Visitors from Heaven
10
2
Norval Morriseau
Thunder's Dream Comes True
12
2
Black Hawk
Easy Life of the Gray-Eyed
14
1
James Paytiamo
The Spider's Web
15
3
Black Elk
Face to Face
18
14
Their Wondrous Works and Ways
21
3
Charles Alexander Eastman
Before They Got Thick
24
1
Percy Bigmouth
Silmoodawa Gives a Complete Performance
25
1
Anonymous
A Different Kind of Man
26
3
First Boy
I Hid myself and Watched
29
3
Pretty Shield
Jaime
Exchange Between Worlds
32
17
Thunder, Dizzying Liquid, and Cups That Do Not Grow
36
2
Waioskasit
Keep your Presents
38
2
Curly Chief
Give Us Good Goods
40
1
Anonymous
You Rot the Guts of our Young Men
41
1
King Haglar
Some Strange Animal
42
3
Wolf Calf
Buttocks Bags and Green Coffee Bread
45
2
Anonymous
The Bewitched Pale Man
47
2
Vital Thomas
Bearers of the cross
49
19
Burn the Temples, Break Up the Bells
54
3
Pedro Naranjo
A Good Indian's Dilemma
57
1
Anonymous
We Never Quarrel About Religion
57
1
Red Jacket
Janitin Is Named Jesus
58
2
Janitin
The Freedom to Work
60
3
Pablo Tac
A Shaman Obeys
63
1
Pedro Encinales
Always Give Blessings and Be Thankful
64
4
Jim Whitewolf
Living Beside Each Other
68
22
Remove the Cause of Our Uneasiness
72
1
Wahunsonacock
Mary Jemison, Becomes an iroquois
73
5
Mary Jemison
Our Very Good Friend Kirk
78
2
The Old Snake et al.
The Frenchman Dreams Himself Home
80
2
Anonymous
Incident at boyer Creek
82
3
Anonymous
Our Stock of Food and Clothes
85
2
Aleck Paul
If I could See This Thing
87
3
George Bent
The Long Resistance
90
27
We Must Be United
95
3
Tecumseh
Black Hawk Stands Alone
98
3
William Jones
Blood Scattered Like Water
101
5
William Benson
Young Men, Go Out and Fight Them
106
6
Wooden Leg
Geronimo Puts Down the Gun
112
5
Jason Betzinez
The Treaty Trail
117
28
Let Us Examine the Facts
121
3
Corn Tassel
Osceola Determined
124
5
Osceola et al.
My Son, Stop Your Ears
129
4
Chief Joseph
We Are Not Children
133
7
Medicine Horse et al.
Plenty Coups Travels to Washington
140
5
Plenty Coups
Exiles in Their Own Land
145
25
Plea from the Chickasaw
151
1
Levi Colbert et al.
Tushpa Crosses the Mississippi
152
5
James Culberson
Corralling the Navajo
157
4
Chester Arthur
The Uprooted Winnebago
161
3
Little Hill
Standing Bear's Odyssey
164
6
Standing Bear
The Nation's Hoop is Broken and Scattered
170
15
The Buffalo Go
174
2
Old Lady Horse
Take Care of Me
176
1
Wild Cat
I am Alone
176
2
Cochise
I Have Spoken
178
2
Crazy Horse
I want to Look for My Children
180
1
Chief Joseph
No Dawn to the East
181
1
Anonymous
Gone Forever
182
2
Buffalo Bird Woman
This Awful Loneliness
184
1
Anonymous
A Wish
184
1
Flint Knife
PART TWO RESERVATION TO RESURGENCE
185
288
The Very Small Islands
187
26
Treated Better
193
3
Wolves
Ree
Yankton Sioux
Passing Hail
Santee Sioux
We Lost Everything
196
2
Herrero
The Way Agents Get Rich
198
4
Sarah Winnemucca
The Career of Ely Parker
202
2
Ely S. Parker
Annie Makes Her Choice
204
3
Annie Lowry
We Had Everything to Learn
207
6
Carl Sweezy
To Learn Another Way
213
19
Responsive and Resistant Students
218
3
Ellis B. Childers
Lone Wolf
He Is Not One of Us
221
3
Sun Elk
What Harm Is In Our Sun-dance?
224
1
Anonymous
We Will Dance
225
2
Anonymous
Dr. Fewkes Plays Like a Child
227
2
Edmund Nequatewa
Judge Wooden Leg Keeps One Wife
229
3
Wooden Leg
The Flood Has Come
232
24
A House of Our Own
238
2
Joseph La Flesche et al.
Luther's Father Stands Alone
240
4
Luther Standing Bear
Half White and Half Indian
244
2
John Stands in Timber
We Want to Tell You Something
246
5
Albert Yava
He-na Tom, the Hoodwinker
251
2
Lucy Thompson
The Dead Did Not Return
253
3
Anonymous
Hearts on the Ground
256
19
Life on the Checkerboard
262
1
Ruth Muskrat Bronson
Big Man's Rules And Laws
263
2
Alexander Posy
The Outrage of Allotment
265
2
DeWitt Clinton Duncan
Farming and Futility
267
4
Martin Charlot
The Hopi Push of War
271
4
Helen Sekaquaptewa
A Twentieth-Century Indian Voice
275
29
The Best and the Brightest
Society of American Indians
282
7
Laughing at Themselves
289
2
Anonymous
From Wassaja to Montezuma
291
4
Carlos Montezuma
Suddenly a Gate
295
1
Michael Posluns
Following the Medicine
296
4
Anonymous
Scandal in Oklahoma
300
4
Gertrude Bonnin
Interlude of Hope
304
28
Hard Times in Sioux Country
311
2
John Fire Lame Deer
Neglect Along the Klamath
313
3
Robert Spott
The Twenties at San Juan
316
4
Alfonso Ortiz
Commissioner Collier is on Our Side
320
4
Antonio Luhan
Resisting the Indian new Deal
324
3
Rupert Costo
Debate Over IRA
327
3
Alfred DuBray
Ramon Roubideaux
Reducing Navajo Sheep
330
2
The blind Man's Daughter
In and out of the mainstream
332
23
Counting coup in world War Two
338
3
Joseph Medicine Crow
A Code Talker Comes Home
341
3
Anonymous
The Menominees Are Terminated
344
4
DRUMS committee
On Relocation
348
6
Bennie Bearskin
Watt Spade
Stopping Erosion
354
1
Anonymous
Let's Raise Some Hell
355
26
The New Indian Wars
362
5
Laura McCloud
Invading Alcatraz
367
4
Adam Fortunate Eagle
Discovery: The Beeah Tribe
371
1
Anonymous
Birth of AIM
372
4
Vernon Bellecourt
Confrontation or Negotiation
376
5
Gerald Vizenor
So Long As This Land Exists
381
23
Going Back
388
2
Little Star
Hopis and the Love Generation
390
3
Peter Nuvamsa, Sr.
Fred Coyote
Eskimos and ``The Act''
393
4
Fred Bigjim
James Ito-Adler
Dark Sky Over Black Mesa
397
4
Asa Bazhonoodah
Indian Children in Crisis
401
3
Anonymous
Anonymous
It's hard To Be Indian
404
37
What Am I
411
2
Anonymous)
Alone and Very Scared
413
5
Richard S. Cardinal
Notes from Indian Country
418
2
Tim Giago
Before and After Gambling
420
2
Jim Northrup
Sovereignty Revitalized
422
3
Donald L. Fixico
Restoring Life to the Dead
425
4
Rosemary Cambra
First and Last Eskimos
429
4
Anonymous
Resistance at Oka
433
4
Peter Blue Cloud
Confronting Columbus Again
437
4
N. Scott Momaday
Towards a Native Millennium
441
32
Thorns in the side
448
2
Leslie Logan
History Repeating Itself
450
2
Jenine Dumont
Old Names in Charge
452
4
Wilma Mankiller
Ben Nighthorse Campbell
Different Programs
456
4
Ben Bray
Reuniting with Beauty
460
2
Rose Johnson/Tososie
Speedboat or Canoe?
462
3
Watt Scraper
An Eagle Nation
465
4
Carter Revard
The End of the World
469
4
the Zuni People
Anonymous
Notes on Sources
473
20
Illustration credits
493
2
Index
495