"Indigenous History Is American History Our Way: A Parallel History dispels the myths, stereotypes, and absence of information about American Indian, Native Alaskan, and Native Hawaiian people in the master narrative of US history. For most of American history, stories of the country's Indigenous Peoples were either ignored or told by outsiders. This book corrects these errors, exploring the ways in which Indigenous cultures from every corner of the nation have influenced American society from the past into the present, reminding the reader that they have both shaped the US and continue to play a vital role in its story. Significantly, Our Way: A Parallel History is a collaboration of Native scholars representing more than ten Indigenous nations, sharing their histories and their cultures. Each contributor, either an affiliate of an institution of higher education or a prominent Native leader, provides the reader with an inside account of tribal culture and heritage. The result is a comprehensive resource restoring the histories of Indigenous Peoples and their nations to their rightful place in the story of America." --publisher's website

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Séliš creation story -- Our mother's hair: a Kootenai story / Vernon S. Finley -- Yamassee stone coat giant story / Donald Grinde, Jr. -- Iroquois confederacy / Donald Grinde, Jr. -- Alaska native education: history and adaptation in the new millennium / Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley -- My mother's clan(s): the inland Teslin Tlingit / Norma A. Shorty -- To perpetuate the knowledge of our elders into our future generation / Annette Wong -- Doctrine of discovery / Robert J. Miller -- Dispossession of Titticut: the struggle of the Wampanoag and Massachuset people of the Titticut village and reservation to keep their lands, 1669-1790 / George Price -- Our ancestors as decision makers: returning to homeland - Tolowa continuance, perseverance, adaptation, and resistance, 1858-1868 / Annette Reed -- Peacemaker and origins of democracy / Oren Lyons -- Alaska Native claims settlement act (ANCSA): origin, purpose, consequences / Jeane Breinig -- Genny and Lundy / Annette Reed -- "Look out Cleveland": a comment on national leadership in critical times / Jonathan Osorio -- Henry Roe Cloud: activist, intellectual, and my grandfather / Renya Ramirez -- In the tradition of honor: Native American veterans of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries / Steven J. Crum -- US American Indian policy and civil rights / Donald Grinde, Jr. -- They had everything: an interview with Billy Frank, Jr. -- Intergenerational battle for the bodies of our ancestors / Clayton Dumont -- Blood quantum: denying ancestry and fragmenting Lāhui / Jonathan Osorio -- We almost forgot who we are: one family's journey surviving colonialism / Joseph Whittle -- Selling Hawai'i / Lia O'Neill Keawe -- History of Kodiak Alutiiq education and impacts on families today / Alisha Drabek -- We can play too: a new era / Ron Solis -- Kānaka 'Ōiwi --

Acknowledgments and in rememberance --

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About the contributors --

About the editor