In the Hands of the Great Spirit

The 20,000-Year History of American Indians

By: Jake Page

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Paperback | 3 May 2004 | Edition Number 1

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This “flowing, lucid, and satisfying…story of Indian nations” (The Washington Post) traces the history of North American Indigenous peoples from the Pleistocene era to the present—a must-read for anyone wishing to gain a broader perspective on not only Native American history, but United States history in general.

Today, some two million American Indians inhabit the United States, less than one percent of the nation's population. Their origins have always been viewed from a 500-year-old perspective—from the point of view of the Europeans who “discovered” the New World. Yet the true story of the American Indians begins some seventeen thousand years ago—and it is past due for a telling that shows Indians as they are, rather than as westerners wish them to be.

Recent archaeological findings, newly discovered written accounts, and never-before-published records have contributed to a whole new understanding of our country's oldest ancestors. Drawing upon the latest research, as well as his own personal experience living among the Hopi tribes, acclaimed author and former Natural History magazine editor Jake Page covers all aspects of Indian life throughout the ages. From the Pleistocene era to Custer's Last Stand, the Trail of Tears to the Indian Civil Rights Act, the establishment of reservations to the negotiation of casino property, In the Hands of the Great Spirit reveals the astonishing endurance of a group of people whose experience is as varied as the world is old.

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Santa Fe New Mexican A history survey and narrative with no equal, In the Hands of the Great Spirit is a work that belongs on the shelves of anyone who aims to gain a deeper understanding of the history, suffering, and triumphs of this land's original inhabitants.

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Preface: Indian Country	p. 1
Initial Conditions	p. 10
Arrival	p. 12
Origins
Virgin Country: Pleistocene America
The First Americans: Who Were They and When Did They Come?
Hunters and Gatherers	p. 33
A Magical Bear
Pleistocene Overkill?
Bison Hunting
Hot Rocks and Hostile Plants
The Great Basin
The Pacific Coast
The East
The Coming of Agriculture
Agriculture on the Plains
Mondawmin
High Society	p. 65
The Mound Builders
The Hohokam: Master Hydrologists
Mogollons and Anasazis: Master Builders
Coda: The Athapaskans
October 11, 1492
Contact and Response	p. 94
Mysteries	p. 96
Prophets
Population and the Pox
Perceptions
The Question of Cannibalism
What the Indians Made of Europeans
The Spanish	p. 122
La Florida: Place of Flowers
Seven Cities of Gold: Nuevo Mexico
The Pueblo Revolt of 1680
The French and the English	p. 156
Virginia
The Northeast
The Upper Country--Great Lakes
Century's End
The Reinvention of Indian America	p. 186
The French Connection	p. 188
Winnebago Destiny
Pressures from the East
Sex, Murder, and Food
Invading the Plains	p. 202
The Three Worlds of the Cheyennes
Bison, Sun Dances, and the Plains Ecosystem
Counting Coup and Open Warfare
The Coming of the Sioux
World War and a New Nation	p. 213
The Case of the Catawbas
The Seven Years War
Pontiac's Rebellion
The Americans Take Charge
The West Coast
Indeh	p. 242
Removal	p. 244
The Rise and Fall of Tecumseh
Red Sticks and Civilized Tribes
The Marshall Trilogy
Trails of Tears
An American Southwest	p. 264
The New Mexico Territory
Pariahs and Paiutes
California Onslaught
The Last of the Great Horsemen	p. 280
The Big Treaty
The Civil War and Westem Massacres
Peace Policy and Warfare on the Plains
Holdouts--the Nez Perces
Holdouts--the Chiricahuas
The Reservation	p. 306
The Humanitarians
The Ethnographers
On the Reservations
Peyote and Ghost Dances
Final Solution Number One
New Deals	p. 334
The Progressive Era	p. 336
Legalities
Chiricahua Destiny
World War and Two Dreadful Senators
Seeing the Light, Dimly
The Meriam Report
Watershed	p. 358
The Trials and Triumphs of John Collier
World War II
Some Final Solutions
Termination
Red Power	p. 379
Alcatraz and Earlier
The Militant Seventies
The Not-So-Militant Seventies
The Eerie Deliberations of the Indian Claims Commission
A Dispute Between Indians
Current Events	p. 404
The Rise of the East
Gambling
Water
Sacred Matters
Bibliography and Further Reading	p. 437
Some Acknowledgments	p. 451
Index	p. 453
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