Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to Present, 1492-1992 - Expanded Edition by Nabokov, Peter - Editor; Deloria, Vine - Foreword - 1992

E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A.: Penguin Books, 1992. Fifth Printing . Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5 1/2" X 8 1/4. 474 Pages Indexed. Originally released in 1978 this is the Fifth Printing of the 1992 Expanded Edition. Very slightly concave spine and minor wear to cover edges. No marks or stamps and interior text pages are flawless. This anthology edited by anthropologist Peter Nabokov is a history of Native American and white relations as seen through Indian eyes and told through Indian voices: a record spanning five hundred years of interchange between the two peoples. Drawing from a wide range of sources, traditional narratives, Indian autobiographies, government transcripts, firsthand interviews, and more, Nabokov has assembled a vivid collection which is an alternate history of North America. It begins with the Indians' first encounters with the earliest explorers, traders, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers and continuing to the present. As Native Americans respond to the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's arrival their testimony presents a picture of an important, tragic, and frequently misunderstood aspect of American history. Contents in Two Parts: PART ONE -First Encounter to Dispossession - Nine Chapters: Premonitions and Prophecies, Face to Face, Exchange Between Worlds, Bearers of the Cross, Living Beside Each Other, The Long Resistance, The Treaty Trail, Exiles in Their Own Land, and The Nations' Hoop is Broken and Scattered. There are 56 short essays in Part One. PART TWO - Reservation to Resurgence - Ten Chapters: The Very Small Islands, To Learn Another Way, The Flood Has Come, Hearts on the Ground, A Twentieth-Century Indian Voice, Interlude of Hope, In and Out of the Mainstream, Let's Raise Some Hell, So Long as This Land Exists, and Facing the Indian Future. There are 54 essays in Part Two making a total of 110 essays in the Anthology.