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INDEX
Please note that page numbers are not accurate for the e-book edition.
Adams, Hank, 182, 185
African American(s): as buffalo soldiers, 139, 143, 146â49, 167; and civil rights, 10, 175â76; and Jim Crow laws, 140, 170; and “race to innocence,” 230; and Seminole Nation, 66, 101â2
African American slaves and slavery: and Civil War, 133â34; escaped, 66, 79, 101; of Indigenous elite, 91, 98, 134; and plantation economy, 55, 109; as property, 35, 198; and Red Sticks, 99; reparations to, 206; sea voyages and, 34; in Union Army, 135â36; in Virginia, 61
African slaves and slavery: Britain and, 38; in Caribbean Basin, 23, 119; in Mexico, 127; population of, 133; in South America, 43
agriculture: of Aztecs, 20; early centers of, 15â17; in Great Lakes region, 24â25; industrialization and, 166; in Mesoamerica, 17â21; in Northern Mexico, 125; in Pacific Northwest, 25; and peoples of the corn, 30â31; systematic destruction of Indigenous, 61, 87; in US Southwest, 21â24
AIM (American Indian Movement), 184â86, 203, 207, 260n21
Akenson, Donald Harman, 48â49
Alamo, 126, 127
Alcatraz Island, occupation of, 174, 183â84
alcohol and alcoholism, 41, 69â70, 84, 152, 211
Alfred, Taiaiake, 214
allotments, 157â61, 171â73, 189, 249n2
American Indian Movement (AIM), 184â86, 203, 207, 260n21
“American party of Taos,” 122
Amherst, Jeffery, 67â68
Anasazi people, 22
ancestral remains, repatriation of, 206, 231â33
Anishinaabe[g] Nation, 24, 216â17
Ankeah, Sam, 171
Apache Nation, 23, 138, 150â51
Arawaks, 23
assimilation, 151, 157, 173â74
Aztec civilization, 19â21
Bacon's Rebellion, 61â62
Bahlul, Ali Hamza al, 201â2
Balboa, Vasco Núñez de, 43
“Battle of Horseshoe Bend” (1814), 99â100
Battle of Little Bighorn (1870), 151â52, 155
Battle of San Jacinto (1836), 127
Battle of the Alamo (1836), 126, 127
Battle of the Thames (1813), 87
Baum, L. Frank, 155â56
Bay of Pigs (1961), 177
Benton, Thomas Hart, 102, 122, 123
Bent's Fort, 122
BIA.
See
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA)
Big Foot (Chief), 154â55
bin Laden, Osama, 56, 201
bison.
See
buffalo
Black Americans.
See
African American(s)
Black Caribs.
See
Garifuna people
Black Elk, 162
Black Elk, Wallace, 178
“Black Hawk War” (1832), 111
Black Hills (Paha Sapa): gold rush in, 152, 188; restoration to Lakota Sioux of, 180, 211, 236; US confiscation and remuneration for, 207â8
Black Kettle (Chief), 137, 146
“blood quantum,” 170
Blue Jacket (Weyapiersenwah), 81, 83, 85
Blue Lake, 179â80, 258n5
Boarding School Healing Project, 212
boarding schools, 151, 153, 211â14
Boas, Franz, 231
Boers, 48, 140
BolÃvar, Simon, 119â20
Boone, Daniel, 94, 105, 106â7, 227
Borah, Woodrow Wilson, 41
Bozeman Trail, 145
Bradford, William, 63
Brant, Joseph, 81, 84
Britain: conquests by, 38; Indigenous alliances with, 81, 86â87; land as private property in, 34â36; transfer of Ohio Country from, 78
Brown, Dee, 193
Buckongeahelas, 73â74
buffalo: and Fort Laramie, 187â88; and Ghost Dance, 153; in pre-colonial America, 24, 28; and Sand Creek Massacre, 137; slaughter of, 142â43, 188, 220
Buffalohead, Roger, 213
buffalo soldiers, 143, 146â49, 167
Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA): and boarding schools, 151, 189; and energy resources, 209; and Indian Relocation Act, 174; and Indian Reorganization Act, 190; investment of Indigenous funds by, 168; and Trail of Broken Treaties, 185
burial offerings, repatriation of, 206, 231â33
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
(Brown), 193
Bush, George H. W., 198
Bush, George W., 195, 218, 222
Byrd, Jodi, 218, 224, 228â29, 231
Cahokia, 23â24
California: gold seekers in, 129, 130; Spanish control of, 125â26, 127â29; statehood of, 124; US invasion of, 123, 127â30
Calley, William “Rusty,” 192â93
Calloway, Colin, 39â40
Calvinist origin story, 47â51
El Camino Real, 128
Canby, Edward R. S., 223â24
Captain Jack (Kintpuash), 223â24
Caribbean: US imperialism in, 162â67
Caribs, 23
Carleton, James, 138, 139
Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 151, 156, 157, 212
Carson, Christopher Houston “Kit,” 122, 123, 137, 138
Carter, Jimmy, 192
Casey, Edward, 156â57
casinos, 210
Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), 201â2
Central America: early Indigenous civilizations in, 17â21; independence movement in, 119â20
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 176â77
CERT (Council of Energy Resource Tribes), 209â10
Chagossians, 225
Chambers, David Wade, 29
Chang, David, 1, 135
Chatters, James C., 232â33
Cheeseekau, 89
Cherokee Nation: assault against, 87â90; forced march (Trail of Tears) of, 112â14; in French and Indian War, 68â69; in Georgia (state), 110; in Georgia colony, 66; on Indian removal policy, 111â12; origins of, 30; resistance to allotment by, 158; treaties with Confederacy by, 135; during war of independence, 74â76
Cherokee national fund, 168
Cheyenne Nation, 146, 149
Chickamaugas, 88â90
Chickasaw Nation, 97, 113â14, 168
Chief Joseph, 149, 165
child abuse at boarding schools, 212â13
Chippewa Nation, 24
Chiricahuas, 150â51
Chivington, John, 137â38
Choctaws, 97, 113â14
Church, Benjamin, 64
CIA (Central Intelligence Agency), 176â77
citizenship, 169
City of Sherrill v. Oneida Nation of Indians
(2005), 200
civilian attacks: on Cheyennes, 149; after Civil War, 139â40; during Civil War, 94; in colonial period, 65; by Custer, 145â46, 151â52; on Dakotas, 136; in French and Indian War, 67; under Grant, 146; in Illinois and Indiana Territories, 87; in irregular warfare, 59; in Mexico, 131; on Muskogees, 99; My Lai massacre as, 192â93; on Navajos, 138; in Philippines, 166; on Seminoles, 102; in US military history, 58, 59, 196; after war of independence, 93; by “Mad” Anthony Wayne, 82â83; in West, 149, 152; at Wounded Knee, 154â55
civil rights era, 10, 175â77, 182
Civil War: colonial policy and, 140â46; genocidal army of West in, 136â40; Indigenous soldiers in, 133â34, 135â36; irregular warfare in, 94; Mexican War and, 131â32; settlers during, 134â36
Clarke, Elijah, 92
Coahuila Kikapú (Kickapoo) Nation, 126
Cobell v. Salazar
(2011), 206
Cochise, 138
Collier, John, 171â73
colonialism: British overseas, 195, 199; Doctrine of Discovery and, 199â201
colonial period, 56â77; expansion in, 65â66; French and Indian War in, 67â71; Haudenosaunee in, 76â77; militias in, 58â60; in New England, 61â64; in Ohio Country, 71â74; roots of genocide in, 57â60; scalp hunting in, 64â65; Virginia colony in, 60â62; war of independence in, 74â76
colonization: and Calvinist origin story, 48; and culture of conquest, 32; and future of United States, 218, 229; of Northern Mexico, 121â24, 126; by Scots-Irish, 52â54; and terminal narratives, 39â42; after war of independence, 78, 79; of West, 138, 141, 143â44; white supremacy and class and, 36â39