The nations within: The past and future of American Indian sovereignty

AbstractA massive literature exists for the history and culture of American Indians, but the quality of that literature is very uneven. At its best it compares well with the finest scholarship and most interesting reading to be found anywhere. At its worst it may take the form of malicious fabrication…. One of the major purposes of the Newberry Library's Center for the History of the American Indian is to…put Indians properly back into the central role in their own history and into the history of the United States of America as well—as participants in, rather than obstacles to, the creation of American society and culture…