ABSTRACT

First Americans provides a comprehensive history of Native Americans from their earliest appearance in North America to the present, highlighting the complexity and diversity of their cultures and their experiences. Native voices permeate the text and shape its narrative, underlining the agency and vitality of Native peoples and cultures in the context of regional, continental, and global developments. This updated edition of First Americans continues to trace Native experiences through the Obama administration years and up to the present day. The book includes a variety of pedagogical tools including short biographical profiles, key review questions, a rich series of maps and illustrations, chapter chronologies, and recommendations for further reading. Lucid and readable yet rigorous in its coverage, First Americans remains the indispensable student introduction to Native American history.

chapter 3|30 pages

Spanish Borderlands, 1527–1758

chapter 5|34 pages

Empire, 1700–1763

chapter 6|36 pages

The Indians’ Revolution, 1763–1814

chapter 7|43 pages

Removal, 1801–1846

chapter 9|30 pages

The Civil War Years, 1861–1865

chapter 10|33 pages

Conflicting Postwar Directions, 1865–1877

chapter 14|33 pages

The Great Depression, 1929–1940