TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilson,James
TI  - The Earth shall weep: a history of Native America 
SN  - 080213680X
AV  - E77 .W54 1998b
U1  - 970.00497 22
PY  - 1998///]
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Grove Press
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - History
KW  - Government relations
KW  - Indians, Treatment of
KW  - North America
KW  - Indians, North American
KW  - history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 429-449) and index; I. Origins. This is how it was : two views of history ; Contact : in the balance -- II. Invasion. Northeast : One : 'You will have the worst by our absence' ; Northeast : Two : 'A new found Golgotha' ; New York and the 'Ohio Country' : 'We shall not be like father and son, but like brothers' ; Southeast : 'Get a little further : you are too near me' ; Southwest : Return of the white brother ; The far west : the burning world ; The Great Plains : the heart of everything that is -- III. Internal frontiers. Kill the Indian to save the man : assimilation ; New Deal and termination : "let none but the Indian answer" ; The new Indians -- Epilogue
N2  - "The Earth Shall Weep is a book with a pioneering approach that sets it apart from any history now on the market. Drawing not only on historical sources but also on ethnography, archaeology, Indian oral tradition, and his own extensive research in Native American communities, James Wilson sets out to make the Indian perspective on the past and the present accessible to a broad audience. He charts the collision course between indigenous cultures and European invaders, from the first English settlements on the Atlantic coast to the Wounded Knee massacre of 1890, explaining how Europeans justified a process that reduced the Native American population from an estimated seven to ten million to less than 250,000 in just four centuries. Wilson shows how old ideas about native people have continued to underpin government policy and popular perception in the twentieth century, leaving a painful legacy of ignorance and misunderstanding."--Jacket
ER  -