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A descendant of The American Indian Experience , this compelling anthology showcases the work of sixteen specialists. Those chapters retained from the original volume have been carefully revised to make them more accessible to the average undergraduate, while six entirely new and original essays consider important topics: American Indian women; Indian-Spanish relations in the Greater Southwest in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Indian affairs during the Civil War; the ongoing issue of Native Sovereignty; U.S. Indian policy since the Nixon Administration; and the emotional fight over Repatriation.

Designed for use as a core text in one- or two-semester courses in American Indian History or as a supplement to any standard U.S. History survey, "They Made Us Many Promises" is certain to challenge readers′ assumptions about the past and current roles of Indians in American society.

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• Foreword(p. IX)
• The Authors(p. XI)
• Part I A World Turned Upside Down(p. 1)
• Chapter 1 Black Gowns and Massachusetts Men: Indian-White Relations in New France and New England to 1701(p. 3)
• Chapter 2 Mutual Distrust and Mutual Dependency: Indian-White Relations in the Era of the Anglo-French Wars for Empire, 1689-1763(p. 32)
• Chapter 3 Facing Off: Indian-Spanish Rivalry in the Greater Southwest, 1528-1821(p. 49)
• Chapter 4 The Trail of Tears: Removal of the Southern Indians in the Jeffersonian-Jacksonian Era(p. 67)
• Chapter 5 Blue, Gray, and Red: Indian Affairs during the American Civil War(p. 85)
• Chapter 6 Ambiguity and Misunderstanding: The Struggle between the U.S. Army and the Indians for the Great Plains(p. 105)
• Part II Visions of a New Order(p. 123)
• Chapter 7 The Bitter Years: Western Indian Reservation Life(p. 125)
• Chapter 8 Reformers' Images of the American Indians: The Late Nineteenth Century(p. 145)
• Chapter 9 From Bullets to Boarding Schools: The Educational Assault on American Indians(p. 155)
• Chapter 10 The Divided Heart: The Indian New Deal(p. 175)
• Chapter 11 Dislocated: The Federal Policy of Termination and Relocation, 1945-1960(p. 193)
• Chapter 12 Finally Acknowledging Native Peoples: American Indian Policies since the Nixon Administration(p. 210)
• Part III The Night is Far Gone, The Day is Near(p. 229)
• Chapter 13 Bury My Heart in Smog: Urban Indians(p. 231)
• Chapter 14 Native Sovereignty: Then and Now in California and the Northwest(p. 244)
• Chapter 15 Traditions and Transformations: American Indian Women in Historical Perspective(p. 269)
• Chapter 16 Our Dead Are Never Forgotten: American Indian Struggles for Burial Rights and Protections(p. 291)
• Index(p. 325)
• Maps
• Major Northeastern Tribes in the Seventeenth Century(p. 7)
• Location of Indian Tribes, 1689-1783(p. 37)
• Indian Tribes of the Southwest, c. 1700(p. 56)
• Major Western Tribes in the Mid-Nineteenth Century(p. 107)
• State and Federally Recognized U.S. Indian Reservations(p. 224)
• The California Missions(p. 247)