"THEY MADE US MANY PROMISES": THE AMERICAN INDIAN EXPERIENCE, 1524 TO THE PRESENT, 2nd Ed. By WEEKS, PHILIP, ED. 330 pages, paperback, ISBN: (0-88295-965-4) PHOTOGRAPHS, MAPS, SUGGESTED READINGS, and INDEX Retail Price: $20.95 Online Price:$16.76   (instructors only)

A descendant of The American Indian Experience, this compelling anthology showcases the work of sixteen specialists. Those chapters retained from the original volume have been carefully revised to make them more accesible to the average undergraduate, while six entirely new and original essays consider important topics: American Indian women; Indian-Spanish relations in the Greater Southwest in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; Indian affairs during the Civil War; the ongoing issue of Native Sovereignty; U.S. Indian policy since the Nixon Administration; and the emotional fight over Repatriation. Designed for use as a core text in one- or two-semester courses in American Indian History or as a supplement to any standard U.S. History survey, "They Made Us Many Promises"is certain to challenge readers' assumptions about the past and current roles of Indians in American society. Contents and Contributors Black Gowns and Massachusetts Men: Indian-White Relations in New France and New England to 1701 by James P. Ronda Mutual Distrust and Mutual Dependency: Indian-white Relations in the Era of the Anglo-French Wars for Empire, 1689-1763 by Dwight L. Smith Facing Off: Indian-Spanish Rivalry in the Greater Southwest, 1528-1821 by David La Vere The Trail of Tears: Removal of the Southern Indians in the Jeffersonian-Jacksonian Era by Theda Perdue Blue, Gray, and Red: Indian Affairs during the American Civil War by Philip Weeks Ambiguity and Misunderstanding: The Struggle between the U.S. Army and the Indians for the Great Plains by Thomas W. Dunlay The Bitter Years: Western Indian Reservation Life by Donald J. Berthrong Reformers' Images of the American Indians: The Late Nineteenth Century by William T. Hagan From Bullets to Boarding Schools: The Educational Assault on American Indians by David Wallace Adams The Divided Heart: The Indian New Deal by Graham D. Taylor Dislocated: The Federal Policy of Termination and Relocation, 1945-1960 by Donald L. FixicoFinally Acknowledging Native Peoples: American Indian Policies since the Nixon Administration by Laurence M. Hauptman Bury My Heart in Smog: Urban Indians by Blue Clark Native Sovereignty: Then and Now in California and the Northwest by Clifford E. Trafzer Traditions and Transformations: American Indian Women in Historical Perspective by Paivi Hoikkala Our Dead Are Never Forgotten: American Indian Struggles for Burial Rights and Protections by James Riding In