Tribes and Tribulations: Misconceptions about American Indians and Their Histories

by Laurence M. Hauptman

Book Overview

Most Americans are misinformed about Native Americans and their history. In the nine essays in this volume, Laurence M. Hauptman, drawing on twenty-five years of teaching American Indian history, selects topics from the seventeenth century to the present as examples of some commonly held but erroneous views on Indian-white relations, including campaigns to pacify and Christianize Indians, policies of removal, and stereotypes of Indians as mascots...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826315828
• ISBN13: 9780826315823
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"