Say we are nations : : documents of politics and protest in indigenous America since 1887 / / edited by Daniel M. Cobb.

• Superior document: H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
• TeilnehmendeR: Cobb, Daniel M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Chapel Hill : : The University of North Carolina Press,, [2015]; 2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 295 pages) :; illustrations, map.

Table of Contents

• Introduction: a reflexive historiography
• My own nation (1899) / Queen Liliuokalani
• Keep our treaties (1906) / Chitto Harjo
• We can establish our rights (1913) / Cherokee Freedmen
• That the smaller peoples may be safe (1918) / Arthur C. Parker
• Another Kaiser in America (1918) / Carlos Montezuma
• Our hearts are almost broken (1919) / No Heart et al.
• I want to be free (1920) / Porfirio Mirabel
• I am going to Geneva (1923) / Deskaheh
• It is our way of life (1924) / All-Pueblo Council
• As one Indian to another (1934) / Henry Roe Cloud
• Fooled so many times (1934) / George White Bull and Oliver Prue
• Let us try a New Deal (1934) / Christine Galler
• If we have the land, we have everything (1934)/ Albert Sandoval, Fred Nelson, Frank Cadman, and Jim Shirley
• We have heard your talk (1934) / Joe Chitto
• Eliminate this discrimination (1941) / Elizabeth and Roy Peratrovich
• I am here to keep the land (1945) / Martin Cross
• We are still a sovereign nation (1949) / Hopi Traditionalist Movement
• I had no one to help me (1953) / Jake Herman
• We need a boldness of thinking (1954) / D'Arcy McNickle
• We are citizens (1954) / National Congress of American Indians
• This resolution "gives" Indians nothing (1954) / Helen Peterson and Alice Jemison
• We are Lumbee Indians (1955) / D. F. Lowery
• The Mississippi Choctaws are not going anywhere (1960) / Phillip Martin
• A human right in a free world (1961) / Edward Dozier
• This is not special pleading (1961) / American Indian Chicago Conference
• I can recognize a beginning (1962-1964) / Jeri Cross, Sandy Johnson, and Bruce Wilkie
• To survive as a people (1964) / Clyde Warrior
• We were here as independent nations (1965) / Vine Deloria Jr.
• Is it not right to help them win their rights? (1965) / Angela Russell
• We will resist (1965) / Nisqually Nation
• I want to talk to you a little bit about racism (1968) / Tillie Walker
• A sickness which has grown to epidemic proportions (1968) / Committee of 100
• Our children will know freedom and justice (1969) / Indians of all tribes
• We are an honorable people: Can you say the same? (1973) / The Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy
• We have the power (1974) / John Trudell
• For the continuing independence of native nations (1974) / International Indian Treaty Council
• For human rights and fundamental freedoms (1977) / Geneva Declaration
• Why have you not recognized us as sovereign people before? (1977) / Marie Sanchez
• Our red nation (1978) / Dine, Lakota, and Haudensaunee traditional governments
• These are inherent rights (1978) / The Longest Walk statement
• Get the record straight (1987) / James Hena
• This way of life: The peyote way (1992) / Reuben Snake
• Let Catawba continue to be who they are (1992) / E. Fred Sanders
• Return the power of governing (1994) / Wilma Mankiller
• We already know our history (1996) / Armand Minthorn
• We would like to have answers (2003) / Russell Jim
• The sovereign expression of native self-determination (2003) / J. Kehaulani Kauanui
• I will not rest till justice is achieved (2005) / Elouise Cobell
• An organization, a club, or is it a nation (2007) / Osage Constitutional Reform testimony
• The Gwich'in are caribou people (2011) / Sarah Agnes James
• I want to work for economic and social justice (2012) / Susan Allen
• I could not allow another day of silence to continue (2012) / Deborah Parker
• Indian enough (2013) / Alex Pearl
• We will be there to meet you? (2013) / Armando Iron Elk and Faith Spotted Eagle
• Call me human (2015) / Lyla June Johnston
• Conclusion: forgotten/remembered.