Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Author's Note -- Dramatis Personae -- Preamble -- Introduction -- 1. Paiute-White Encounters, 1826 and 1862 -- 2. Before Whites -- 3. "Wholly and Completely Different" -- 4. Paiute Power -- 5. Keeping Up Appearances -- 6. Dark Dawn -- 7. A Messenger to My Heart -- 8. The Snake War -- 9. A Home on Their Native Soil -- 10. A Troika -- 11. A New Agent -- 12. The Bannock Uprising -- 13. Exodus -- 14. Truth Management -- 15. Barren Valley Imbroglio -- 16. Rescue -- 17. Steens Mountain
18. Silver Creek -- 19. A Great Circle -- 20. Crania Absentia -- 21. Placing the Paiutes -- 22. A Big Talk -- 23. Doing Right by the Paiutes -- 24. Backlash -- 25. Untethered from Truth -- 26. Gold and Cattle -- 27. According to Howard -- 28. A Yale Ho-Chunk -- 29. White Whim, Paiute Penury -- Conclusion -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary
David H. Wilson Jr. recounts an epic story of the Northern Paiutes' resistance and adaptation as they faced settler colonization and governmental misappropriation of their land in Oregon Country from the early 1850s to the 1930s
