An updated edition of this classic collection of more than 500years of Native American history
Revised to bring this important chronicle to the end of themillennium, anthropologist Peter Nabokov presents a history ofNative American and white relations as seen though Indian eyes andtold through Indian voices. Beginning with the Indians' firstencounters with European explorers, traders, missionaries,settlers, and soldiers to the challenges confronting NativeAmerican culture today, Native American Testimony is a series ofpowerful and moving documents spanning five hundred years ofinterchange between the two peoples. Drawing from a wide range ofsources--traditional narratives, Indian autobiographies, governmenttranscripts, firsthand interviews, and more--Nabokov has assembleda remarkably rich and vivid collection, representing nothing lessthan an alternate history of North America.
* Updated with new material on Native Americans facing thetwenty-first century
"A strong and moving reminder of a lost dimension in Americanhistory." --Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
【作者简介】
Peter Nabokov teaches in the department of World Arts andCultures at UCLA. His books include Native American Architecture(with Robert Easton), The Architecture of Acoma Pueblo, IndianRunning, and Two Leggings: The Makings of a Crow Warrior.
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