American Indian History

A Documentary Reader

Townsend, Camilla (Editor)

Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History

1. Edition March 2009
262 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd

ISBN: 978-1-4051-5908-1

John Wiley & Sons

This Reader from the Uncovering the Past
series provides a comprehensive introduction to American Indian
history.

* Over 60 primary documents allow the voices of natives to
illuminate the American past

* Includes samples of native languages just above the full
translations of particular texts

* Provides comprehensive introductions and headnotes, as well as
images, an extensive bibliography, and suggestions for further
research

* Includes such texts as a decoded Maya inscription, letters
written during the French and Indian War on the distribution of
small pox blankets, and a diatribe by General George Armstrong
Custer shortly before he was killed at the Battle of the Little Big
Horn

Part 1: Indian Ways.

Part 2: Early Contact in the Southeast.

Part 3: Unfolding Colonies.

Part 4: Eighteenth-century Shifts.

Part 5: the Birth of U.S. Policy.

Part 6: The Losing of the West.

Part 7: Assimilation and the Popular Imagination.

Part 8: The New Deal and World War II.

Part 9: Upheavals of the 1960s and 70s.

Part 10: The End of the Twentieth Century

"Unlike any other text, Townsend's accessible collection
offers a much-needed gathering of documents in Native history from
the pre-Columbian era to the present. It will be an invaluable
resource for the undergraduate classroom."

Gwenn Miller, College of the Holy Cross

"Camilla Townsend's book is an ideal supplement for any course
in Native American history. The documents here will introduce
students to crucial aspects of the indigenous experience. More
important, the texts testify to the richness of Native American
cultures."

Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California

"Filled with a wide range of primary sources, Camilla
Townsend's American Indian History: A Documentary
Reader offers a comprehensive, yet manageable, resource for
instructors wanting to inject more American Indian history in their
American history survey courses."

Troy Bickham, Texas A&M University

Camilla Townsend is Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America (2000), Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma (2004) and Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico (2006).

C. Townsend, Rutgers University, USA