Frederick E. Hoxie is Swanlund Professor of History, Law, and American Indian Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. A former Director of the D'Arcy McNickle Center for American Indian History and Vice President for Research and Education at the Newberry Library, he is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including This Indian Country: American Indian Activists and the Place They Made and Parading Through History: The Making of the Crow Nation in America.

• Contents


• List of maps


• List of contributors


• Introduction


• Part I: Major Chapters in the Native American Past


• 1. America in 1492 (Cameron B. Wesson)


• 2. European Invasions and Early Settlement, 1500-1680 (Robbie Ethridge)


• 3. Living in a Reordered World, 1680-1763 (Kathleen DuVal)


• 4. The Age of Imperial Expansion, 1763-1821 (Claudio Saunt)


• 5. U.S. Expansion and its Consequences, 1815-1890 (John P. Bowes)


• 6. Surviving the 20th Century, 1890-1960 (Paul C. Rosier)


• 7. The Indian Renaissance, 1960-2000: Stumbling to Victory, or Anecdotes of Persistence? (Robert Warrior)


• 8. Contemporary History: Native America in the Twenty-First Century (Paul DeMain)


• Part II: Regional and Tribal Histories


• 9. The Great Lakes (Jill Doerfler and Erik Redix)


• 10. Iroquoia (Timothy J. Shannon)


• 11. The Southwest (James F. Brooks)


• 12. The Plains (Jeffrey Ostler)


• 13. The Pacific Northwest (Andrew H. Fisher)


• 14. California (William J. Bauer, Jr.)


• 15. Alaska (Rosita Kaaháni Worl)


• 16. The South (Christina Snyder)


• 17. The Atlantic Northeast (Neal Salisbury)


• 18. Indian Territory and Oklahoma (Troy D. Smith)


• 19. The Great Basin (Gregory E. Smoak)


• Part III: Big Themes


• 20. Gender, Sexuality, and Family History: Naynaabeak's Fishing Net (Brenda J. Child)


• 21. Population, Health and Public Welfare (David Jones)


• 22. Spirituality (David Delgado Shorter)


• 23. Native American Expressive Arts (Anya Montiel)


• 24. Collectors and Museums: From Cabinets of Curiosities to Indigenous Cultural Centers (Scott Manning Stevens)


• 25. Indians in the Marketplace (Alexandra Harmon)


• 26. Intellectual History (Lisa Brooks)


• 27. Treaties and Treaty Making (Colin G. Calloway)


• 28. Urban Native Histories (Coll Thrush)


• 29. American Indians in Popular Culture (Dustin Tahmahkera)


• 30. American Indians in World History (Michael Witgen)


• Index

The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History presents the story of the indigenous peoples who lived-and live-in the territory that became the United States. It describes the major aspects of the historical change that occurred over the past 500 years with essays by leading experts, both Native and non-Native, that focus on significant moments of upheaval and change, place-based histories of major centers of indigenous occupation, and overviews of major aspects of Indian community and national life.