Breaks new ground by telling the stories of individual laborers at the fair, uncovering the roles that Indians played in the changing economic conditions of tribal peoples, and redefining their place in the American socioeconomic landscape.

The dynamic histories of everyday people at the heart of this book sheds new light on the adaptability of mobile Native American communities. In the end, this is a story of shared experience across tribal lines, through which Indigenous people incorporated urban life into their ideas for Indigenous futures.

A comprehensive chronological look at the entirety of Native American history, focusing particularly on native peoples within the geographic boundaries of the United States. Readers will learn a wealth of American Indian history as well as appreciate the key role American Indians played in certain significant stages of American history as a whole. The direct connections between the events in the past and many current hot-button topics―such as race, climate change, water use, and other issues―are clearly identified.

Beginning in the second half of the nineteenth century, American Indians themselves started using cameras to record their daily activities and to memorialize tribal members. A refreshing, new perspective highlighting the active contributions of North American Indians, both as patrons who commissioned portraits and as photographers who created collections. Features photographs that range from formal portraits to casual snapshots. Demonstrates how indigenous peoples took control of their own images and distinguished themselves as pioneers of photography.

An unsettling history of “Indian Removal,” the forced migration of Native Americans across the Mississippi River in the 1830s and the state-sponsored theft of their lands.