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A history of Native America

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  • Narrator: Ned Blackhawk
    Publisher:
    Recorded Books, Distributed by OneClick Digital, 2011
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

Details:

  • Author: Blackhawk, Ned.
    Contributor: Recorded Books, LLC.
    Edition: Unabridged
    Date:
    Created
    2011
    ,
    Copyrighted
    2010
    Summary:

    Blackhawk presents a history of Native America from the time shortly before the expeditions of Christopher Columbus to the present. Focusing on the Columbian Exchange, Indians and the American Constitution, American Indian Removal, the Civil War, and the modern age, Blackhawk concludes his revealing course by addressing the issues that continue to affect Native Americans today.

    Contents:
    • Native North America before 1492
    • The Colombian encounter, exchange, and conquest
    • Native peoples and French, Dutch, and English colonies: the seventeenth century
    • The play-off system and the Seven-Years' War
    • Native peoples and the Revolutionary Republic
    • American Indians in the North American West before Lewis and Clark
    • The constitutional crisis of American Indian removal
    • American Indians in the Civil War era
    • The indigenous west of Mark Twain
    • The age of assimilation
    • Early twentieth-century Indian activism and the Indian New Deal
    • World War II and the rise of termination
    • American Indian activism and self-determination
    • The miner's canary: American Indian sovereignty in the twenty-first century.
    Subject(s): Indians of North America | Indians of North America--Government relations
    Original Publisher: Prince Frederick, MD, [Prince Frederick, Md.], Recorded Books, [Distributed by] OneClick Digital
    Language(s): English
    ISBN: 9781461806783