The Indian way: Epigraphs
The beginning of newness: a Zuni creation legend
Journey to the West in search of tribal origins / Moncachtape (Yazoo)
Constitution of the Iroquois Federation / Degandawida (Mohawk)
A visit to the "Master of Life": a Delaware legend / Pontiac (Ottawa)
Speech in response to missionary efforts, 1805 / Red Jacket (Seneca)
A system of religion / Tenkswataya, or the Prophet (Shawnee)
An Indian cosmogony / Chief Smohalla (Wanapum)
Courtship and marriage / James Larpenteur Long and Red Feather (Assiniboine)
Indian family life / Luther Standing Bear (Sioux)
A Winnebago father's instructions to his son
A Pawnee mother's advice to her son, Lone Chief
Life in the woods: boyhood memories of autumnal tribal activities (c. 1870-72) / Charles Eastman, or Ohiyesa (Santee Sioux)
The years of a warrior / Wooden Leg (Cheyenne)
staff of life for the Indians / James Larpenteur Long (Assiniboine)
Stealing horses from the Arapahoe / Chief Plenty-Coups (Crow)
An Indian deer hunt / James Paytiano, or Flaming Arrow (Acoma Pueblo)
The sun dance / Chief Dick Washakie (Shoshone)
Human sacrifice / Eagle Chief (Pawnee)
"Our people are ebbing away like a rapidly receding tide": a speech to governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory, 1885 / Chief Seattle (Puget Sound Tribes)
An account of Wovoka, the Paiute Messiah / Porcupine (Cheyenne)
A defense of the Ghost Dance Religion / Masse Hadjo (Sioux)
Autobiography / Poor Wolf (Gros Ventre)
The end of the world: a Pawnee myth / Young Bull (Pitahaunat Pawnee). Captive nations: Epigraphs
Remarks to Captain John Smith (c. 1609) / Powhatan (Powhatan Confederacy)
Reasons for the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 in New Mexico: testimony given to the Spanish authorities on December 19, 1681 / Pedro Naranjo (Queres Pueblo)
Speeches to the governors of New York and Virginia, in a council assembled at Albany in August, 1684 / Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca Chiefs
Speech in [sic] behalf of the Six Nations to Pennsylvania officials, July, 7, 1742 / Canassateego (Seneca)
Address to an Englishman on British-French relations with the Indians, 1761 / Minavavana (Chippewa)
Speech to the French on reasons for making war on the English, May 25, 1763 / Pontiac (Delaware)
Speech at the end of the Lord Dunmore's War / Logan (Mingo)
Speech to the British at a council in Detroit, November, 1781 / Captain Pipe (Delaware)
Letter to President Washington, 1790 / Big Tree, Cornplanter, and Half-Town (Seneca)
Relations with the United States and Britain / Blue Jacket (Shawnee)
Speech to Governor William Henry Harrison at Vincennes, August 12, 1810 / Tecumseh (Shawnee)
Refusal of a land-purchase offer, in a speech made at Buffalo Creek, New York, in May, 1811 / Red Jacket (Seneca)
Letter to William Eustis, Secretary of War, December 19, 1811 / Farmers-Brother (Seneca)
Speech on the futility of fighting the Americans in the War of 1812 / Between-the-Logs (Wyandot)
Speech to American Commissioners in response to the allegations that Indians had broken treaty obligations, July, 1815 / Black Thunder (Fox)
Letter to the Governor of Pennsylvania, February 1822 / Cornplanter (Seneca)
Why the Indians will not give up their land, 1827 / Kanakuk (Kickapoo)
Response to a message from President Andrew Jackson concerning Indian removal, 1830 / Speckled Snake (Cherokee)
Farewell letter to the American people, 1832 / George W. Harkins (Choctaw)
Farewell speech at Prairie dr Chien, Wisconsin, at the end of Black Hawk War, August, 1835 / Black Hawk (Sac-Potawatomi)
Surrender of a Seminole Band, 1841 / Coacooche (Seminole)
A portion of a speech to a meeting of the New York Historical Society, 1847 / Peter Wilson (Cayuga)
Speech to Canadian officials on land-purchase policy, given at a council at the Sault Ste. Marie, August 9, 1848 / Peau de Chat (Ojibway)
An interview with Governor Alexander Ramsey of Minnesota, December, 1852 / Red Iron (Sisseton Sioux)
Fourth of July address at Reidsville, New York, 1854 / John Quinney (Mahican)
Speech to council of war on eve of the Sioux upsrising in Minnesota, August 18, 1862 / Little Crow (Santee Sioux)
The great Sioux uprising of 1862 / Big Eagle (Santee Sioux)
Letter to General Ulysses S. Grant, January 24, 1864 / Ely S. Parker, or Donehogawa (Seneca)
An eyewitness report of the Sand Creek Massacre, November 28, 1864 / George Bent (Cheyenne)
How the Indians are victimized by government agents and soldiers / Palaneapope (Yankton Sioux)
The condition to the Winnebago Indians in Nebraska, October 3, 1865 / Little Hill (Winnebago)
Speech at the Medicine Lodge Indian Council, addressed to the Indian Commissioner Nathaniel G. Taylor, October 20, 1867 / Ten Bears (Comanche)
Speech at Cooper Union, New York, July 16, 1870 / Red Cloud (Oglala Sioux)
Remarks made to General Gordon Granger during a conference on the matter of going to a reservation, 1871 / Cochise (Apache)
Events leading up to the Modoc War, 1873 / Captain Jack (Modoc)
Testimony about the white man's promises and intentions, August 11, 1873 / Blackfoot (Crow)
The Battle of Little Bighorn, narrated by an Indian who fought in it, June 25, 1876 / Two Moons (Cheyenne)
The Black Hills is our country: testimony to a federal commission, September, 1876 / Black Coal (Arapahoe)
Indian conditions for treaty renewal, October 11, 1876 / John Grass (Blackfoot Sioux)
A protest to Governor John W. Hoyt of the Wyoming Territory, 1878 / Washakie (Shoshone)
The fate of the Nez Perces Tribe, 1879 / Chief Joseph (Nez Perces)
A message for the President of the United States, 1881 / Sitting Bull (Hunkpapa Sioux)
The killing of Big Snake, a Ponca chief, October 31, 1879 / Hairy Bear (Ponca)
"The American nation is too powerful for us to fight" / Manuelito (Navajo)
Reasons for leaving the reservation / Geronimo (Chiracahua Apache)
Keeping treaties / Sitting Bull (Hunkapapa Sioux)
Reasons for the trouble between the Indians and the government during the Ghost Dance excitement of 1890 / Red Cloud (Oglala Sioux)
The massacre at Wounded Knee, on December 29, 1890 / Turning Hawk, Captain Sword, Spotted Horse, and American Horse (Sioux). Heading toward the mainstream: Epigraphs
The reservation school (c. 1900) / Don Talayesva (Hopi)
How allotment impoverishes the Indians: testimony before a Senate committee investigating conditions in the Indian Territory, November, 1906 / D.W.C. Duncan (Cherokee)
The reservation system / Thomas L. Sloan (Omaha)
Testimony during a 1915 trial for violating a Washington State code on salmon fishing / Chiefs Meninock and Wallahee (Yakima)
"Let my people go": an address delivered at the Conference of the Society of American Indians in Lawrence, Kansas, September 30, 1915 / Carlos Montezuma (Apache)
What the Indian means to America (1933) / Luther Standing Bear (Sioux)
Indian self-determination (1934) / Ralph Fredenberg (Menominee)
The Indian in wartime (1944) / Ella Deloria (Sioux)
"Shall we repeat Indian history in Alaska?": speech to the Annual Meeting of the Indian Rights Association, January 23, 1947 / Ruth Muskrat Bronson (Cherokee)
Problems of off-reservation employment / Jim Becenti (Navajo)
An appeal for justice (1948) / Indians of the St. Regis Reservation, Hogansburg, New York
"Whither the American Indian?": a symposium, 1954 / Daisy Albert (Hopi), Clarence Wesley (Apache), and N.B. Johnson (Cherokee)
The importance of keeping the land (1955) / Dan Monongye (Hopi)
The voice of the American Indian
The Indian tests the mainstream / D'Arcy McNickle (Flathead)
Testimony against proposed Congressional legislation, 1966 / Earl Old Person (Blackfoot)
The war on poverty (1967) / Clyde Warrior (Ponca)
A symposium on Indian education, June 1968 / Allen Quetone (Kiowa), Alex Saluskin (Yakima), Joshua Wesit (Assiniboine), and Ben Black Elk (Oglala Sioux)
Fishing rights for the Indians of Washington State (1968) / Sidney Mills (Yakima Cherokee)
The native Alaskans' land rights (1969) / John Borbridge (Tlingit)
Planning grant proposal to develop an all-Indian university and cultural complex on Indian land, Alcatraz / Indians of all tribes
Consolidating Indian efforts (1970) / Vine Deloria, Jr.
Appeal to Congress for the return to Blue Lake, 1970 / Taos, New Mexico, Pueblo Delegation.
