Why You Can't Teach United States History without American Indians

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A resource for all who teach and study history this book illuminates the unmistakable centrality of American Indian history to the full sweep of American history. The nineteen essays gathered in this collaboratively produced volume written by leading scholars in the field of Native American history reflect the newest directions of the field and are organized to follow the chronological arc of the standard American history survey. Contributors reassess major events themes groups of historical actors and approaches--social cultural military and political--consistently demonstrating how Native American people and questions of Native American sovereignty have animated all the ways we consider the nations past. The uniqueness of Indigenous history as interwoven more fully in the American story will challenge students to think in new ways about larger themes in U.S. history such as settlement and colonization economic and political power citizenship and movements for equality and the fundamental question of what it means to be an American. Contributors are Chris Andersen Juliana Barr David R. M. Beck Jacob Betz Paul T. Conrad Mikal Brotnov Eckstrom Margaret D. Jacobs Adam Jortner Rosalyn R. LaPier John J. Laukaitis K. Tsianina Lomawaima Robert J. Miller Mindy J. Morgan Andrew Needham Jean M. OBrien Jeffrey Ostler Sarah M. S. Pearsall James D. Rice Phillip H. Round Susan Sleeper-Smith and Scott Manning Stevens.