The Longest Trail: Writings on American Indian History, Culture, and Politics [Paperback]

Alvin Josephy Jr.’s groundbreaking, popular books and essays advocated for a fair and true historical assessment of Native Americans, and set the course for modern Native American studies.This collection, which includes magazine articles, speeches, a white paper, and introductions and chapters of books, gives a generous and reasoned view of five hundred years of Indian history in North America from first settlements in the East to the long trek of the Nez Perce Indians in the Northwest. The essays deal with the origins of still unresolved troubles with treaties and territories to fishing and land rights, and who should own archeological finds, as well as the ideologies that underpin our Indian policy. Taken together the pieces give a revelatory introduction to American Indian history, a history that continues both to fascinate and inform.Foreword by Roberta Conner
Introduction by Marc Jaffe and Rich Wandschneider
Editors’ Note 

Part I. Putting Indians into American History

Listening to Indians: A Commentary by Clifford Trafzer

1. A Continent Awakes
2. Indians of the Sound
3. Tecumseh, the Greatest Indian
4. The Hudson’s Bay Company and the American Indians
5. A Most Satisfactory Council
6. Red Morning in Minnesota
7. The Last Stand of Chief Joseph

Part II. Indians and the Natural World

Native Endurance—A Connection to Place: A Commentary by Jaime Pinkham

8. Cornplanter, Can You Swim? The Native Americans’ Fight to Hold On to Their Land Base
9. Like Giving Heroin to an Addict : The Reassertion of Native American Water Rights
10. The Great Northwest Fishing War
11. The Hopi Way

Part III. The Miracle of Indian Survival

Let’s Make the Deal—Indian Country’s History of Success: A Commentary by Mark Trahant

12. The American Indian and the Bureau of Indian Affairs
13. The Historical and ló,