Expanded coverage of the colonial and revolutionary periods, each now given full chapter treatment, provides added focus on contact at the Pacific Northwest coast, Indian slavery in colonial America, Indian participation the revolutionary era, and interactions between Native Americans and African Americans.
Expanded coverage of the 20th and 21st centuries, now in three chapters (formerly two), pays critical attention to Native participation in major American events including both World Wars, as well as contemporary issues for American Indians and their communities. Expanded topics include self-determination from the 1970s on, the Cherokee Freedmen, and various issues in Indian life today – language preservation and revival, sexual assault, and cultural protection and appropriation, among others.
Four wholly new Picture Essays refresh the book’s visual primary sources. New Picture Essays include Indians in eighteenth-century London, John Webber’s drawings of eighteenth-century Northwest Coast Indians, Indians and World War II, and tribal sovereignty in action.
New chapter-opening focus questions preview the chapter’s major themes and help guide student reading for deeper comprehension.
Picture Essay images are now available in color on the accompanying Instructor’s Resource CD-Rom, which also includes the textbook’s maps for easy inclusion in customized lectures and classroom discussion. All maps and additional images are also accessible at
bedfordstmartins.com/makehistory.