Plateau Indians

Libro editado por Craig A. Doherty y Katherine M. Doherty en 2008


Introduction
Box Feature: The Study of Paleo-Indians
Map: Beringia, 18,000–12,000 Years Ago
Map: Glaciers and Migration Routes
Box Feature: Stone Tools

1 Stone Age Hunters to Riverine Culture
on the Plateau

Map: Plateau Culture Area
Early Period (9000 to 6000 b.c.)
Box Feature: Science Helps Archaeologists
Middle Period (6000 to 2000 b.c.)
Box Feature: Plateau Agriculture
Late Period (2000 b.c. to a.d. 1720)
Box Feature: Glaciers Feed the Plateau

2 The Cycles of Life

Family Organization
Box Feature: The Sweat Lodge
Tribal Organization
Map: Tribal Territories, ca. 1700
Box Feature: Languages of the Plateau

3 Houses, Clothing, Tools, and Transportation

Houses
Box Feature: Tule Reeds
Clothing
Box Feature: Dentalia
Utensils, Tools, and Weapons
Box Feature: Beaver Tooth Knives
Transportation

4 Daily Life

Spring
First Food Ceremonies
Fishing
Box Feature: Salmon Flour
Summer
Box Feature: Camas Root
Food Storage
Food Gathering
Trade
Games
Box Feature: The Stick Game
Fall
Hunting
Box Feature: A Deer Hunt
Gathering
Winter
Survival
Winter Spirit Dance
Box Feature: Coyote Saves All the Plants and Animals
Winter Hunting

5 The Coming of Europeans

First Contacts
Disease
Horses
Fur Trade
Box Feature: The Appaloosa

6 The Plateau in the Nineteenth Century

Lewis and Clark
Fur Traders
Map: Corps of Discovery, 1804–1806
Box Feature: Sacajawea (Sacagewea)
Oregon Trail
Map: Oregon Trail, 1841–1866
Walla Walla Treaties
War on the Plateau
Map: Flight of the Nez Perce, 1877
Box Feature: “I Will Fight No More Forever”
Losing More Land

7 Plateau Indians in the Twentieth Century

Education
Water Rights
A New Deal for the Plateau Indians
Box Feature: American Indian Defense
Association
World War II
Termination
Box Feature: Indian Claims Commision
Fighting for Fish
Box Feature: Fish-Ins
Box Feature: Elizabeth Woody (1959– )

8 The Indians of the Plateau Today

Tribal Enterprises
Casinos
Box Feature: Nez Perce Buy Back Artifacts
Cultural Revival
Indians of the Plateau Today
Box Feature: Devil’s Club
Table: Tribes of the U.S. Plateau, 2000