This Indian Country American Indian Activists and the Place They
Made By Frederick Hoxie (Penguin Press HC, The, Hardcover,
9781594203657, 480pp.) Publication Date: October 25, 2012 Other
Editions of This Title: Paperback Categories: Native American
Frederick E. Hoxie, one of our most prominent and celebrated
academic historians of Native American history, has for years
asked his undergraduate students at the beginning of each
semester to write down the names of three American Indians.
Almost without exception, year after year, the names are
Geronimo, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. The general conclusion
is inescapable: Most Americans instinctively view Indians as
people of the past who occupy a position outside the central
narrative of American history. These three individuals were
warriors, men who fought violently against American expansion,
lost, and died. It’s taken as given that Native history has no
particular relationship to what is conventionally presented as
the story of America. Indians had a histor