Across nineteenth-century New England, antiquarians and community leaders wrote hundreds of local histories about the founding and growth of their cities and towns. Ranging from pamphlets to multivolume treatments, these narratives shared a preoccupation with establishing the region as the cradle of an Anglo-Saxon nation and the center of a modern American culture. They also insisted, often in mournful tones, that New England’s original inhabitants, the Indians, had become extinct, even though many Indians still lived in the very towns being chronicled.

For the Plains Indians, the period from 1750 to 1890, often referred to as the traditional period, was an evolutionary time. Horses and firearms, trade goods, shifting migration patterns, disease pandemics, and other events associated with extensive European contact led to a peak of Plains Indian influence and success in the early nineteenth century. Ironically, that same European contact ultimately led to the devolution of traditional Plains Indian society, and by 1870 most Plains Indian peoples were living on reservations.In The Plains Indians Paul H. Carlson charts the evolution and growth of the Plains Indians through this period of constant change.

Mountain Nightmare

HUNTER OR THE HUNTED? As mountain man Nate King and his family struggle to live free in the untamed country of frontier America, Nate and his neighbors have begun to find tracks and other signs of a being the Indians know as the Old Ones, a half-man, half-breed creature that preys on humans and kills simply for the sake of killing.

What does it mean to be a treaty-worthy nation? No question mattered more to Americans in 1776. As Eliga Gould shows in this prize-winning book, the need for international recognition touched every part of the United States' early history -- from the drafting of the Constitution, to relations between settlers and Indians, to the looming debate over slavery.

In addition to revisions and updates, the second edition of “We Are Still Here” features new material, seeing this well-loved American History Series volume maintain its treatment of American Indians in the 20th century while extending its coverage into the opening decades of the 21st century.
Provides student and general readers concise and engaging coverage of contemporary history of American Indians contributed by top scholars and instructors in the fieldRepresents an ideal supplement to any U.S. or Native American survey textIncludes a completely up-to-date synthesis of the most current literature in the field