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This text presents a carefully selected group of readings-on topics such as European encounters and contemporary Native American activism-that allow students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions.

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• 1 Interpreting the Indian Past
• Essays
• Ethics and Responsibilities in Writing American Indian History
• Indian Peoples and the Natural World: Asking the Right Questions
• 2 Indian History Before Columbus
• Documents
• 1 A Pueblo Song of the Sky Loom, n.d.
• 2 Maidu Account of the Beginning of the World, n.d.
• 3 A Skagit Belief About the Origins of the World, n.d.
• 4 The Arikaras Describe Their Origins, n.d.
• 5 The Iroquois Depict the World on the Turtle's Back, n.d.
• Essays
• The Indians' Old World: Native Americans and the Coming of Europeans
• 3 Indians and Europeans Meet
• Documents
• 1 Columbus on the Indians' "Discovery" of the Spanish, 1492
• 2 Spain Requires the Indians to Submit to Spanish Authority, 1513
• 3 Augustiacute;n Rodriacute;guez Describes the Rio Grande Pueblos, 1581–1582
• 4 Jacques Cartier on the Micmacs Meeting the French, 1534
• 5 Powhatan Speaks to Captain John Smith, 1609
• 6 William Bradford on Samoset, Squanto, Massasoit, and the Pilgrims, 1620
• Essays
• Early Native North American Responses to European Contact
• The Indians' New World: The Catawba Experience
• 4 The Southern Borderlands
• Documents
• 1 Pedro Naranjo's (Keresan Pueblo) Explanation of the 1680 Pueblo Revolt, 1681
• 2 Juan (Tiwa Pueblo) Explains the Pueblo Revolt, 1681
• 3 A Luisentilde;o Recollection of Mission Life, 1835
• 4 A Costanoan Account of the Murder of a Missionary, 1812
• Essays
• The Staff of Leadership: Indian Authority in the Missions of Alta California
• 5 The Northern Borderlands
• Documents
• 1 Joseph Fish Preaches to the Narragansett Indians, 1768
• 2 Samson Occom (Mohegan) Gives a Short Narrative of His Life, 1768
• 3 Christien LeClerq (Micmac) Responds to the French, 1677
• 4 J. B. Truteau's Description of Indian Women on the Upper Missouri, 1794
• 5 James Sutherland Notes Canadian Traders Who Wish to Buy an Indian Slave, 1797
• Essays
• The Role of Native American Women in the Fur Trade Society of Western Canada, 1670–1830
• Changing Conditions of Life for Indian Women in Eighteenth-Century New England
• 6 New Nations, New Boundaries: American Revolution in Indian Country
• Documents
• 1 Speech of Congress to Visiting Iroquois Delegation, 1776
• 2 Nathaniel Gist of Virginia Addresses Cherokee Chiefs, 1777
• 3 Dragging Canoe (Cherokee) Replies to Nathaniel Gist, 1777
• 4 Mary Jemison's (Seneca) Memory of the Revolution in Indian Country, 1775–1779
• 5 Treaty of Fort Stanwix, 1784
• Essays
• The Aftermath of the Revolution in Indian Country Ruth Wallis Herndon and Ella Wilcox Sekatau (Narragansett)
• The Right to a Name: The Narragansett People and Rhode Island Officials in the Revolutionary Era
• 7 Domestic Dependent Nations: Tribes in the New Republic
• Documents
• 1 Northwest Ordinance, 1787
• 2 Little Turtle (Miami) on the Treaty of Greenville, 1795
• 3 Tecumseh (Shawnee) Speaks Out Against Land Cessions, 1810
• 4 Indian Commissioner Thomas L. McKenney Explains Removal, 1828
• 5 Speckled Snake's (Cherokee) Reply to President Jackson, 1830
• 6 Cherokee Editor Elias Boudinot Opposes Removal, 1828
• 7 Pierre Chardon on Sex and Marriage with Indians on the Upper Missouri River, 1836–1839
• 8 Friederich Kurz Gives a Romantic View of Indian-