An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Page A

genocidal army of the West, 136–40
    Little Bighorn, 151–52, 155
    Little Crow, 136
    Little House on the Prairie series, 252–53n19
    Little Turtle (Meshekinnoqquah), 81, 83, 85
    Little Wolf, 149
    Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock
(1903), 189
    â€œLong Walk,” 138–39
    â€œLord Dunmore’s War” (1774), 71–72
    â€œlost tribes,” 233
    Louisiana Purchase, 95–96; Daniel Boone and, 106; Cherokees and, 111; conditions for statehood in, 124; and Lewis and Clark, 120; and Sioux Nation, 186
    Lowell, James Russell, 130, 131
    â€œlow-intensity conflict,” 58
    Lyons, Oren, 26
    MacArthur, Arthur, 165
    MacDonald, Peter, 210
    Madison, James, 85, 87, 100
    Magellan, Ferdinand, 43
    Malisset people, 67
    El Malpais, 180
    manifest destiny: and buffalo soldiers, 147; challenge to concept of, 220; and General Allotment Act, 157–61; Mexican War and, 130, 131; and multiculturalism, 5–6; unconscious, 2–3; and US origin myth, 105–6; and US overseas imperialism, 162–67; Walt Whitman on, 118
    Mankiller, Wilma, 108
    Mann, Charles C., 15, 27, 28
    Maroons, 23, 66, 101
    Marshall, John, 110, 199–200
    Martínez, Miguel Alfonso, 205
    Mason, John, 59, 62, 63
    Mayan civilization, 18–19
    Mayflower Compact, 49, 50
    McGillivray, Alexander, 78
    McIntosh, Lachlan, 72–73
    McNickle, D’Arcy, 175, 176, 197
    Means, Russell, 186
    medicine, Indigenous, 17, 246n3
    Melville, Herman, 103, 130
    Menominee Nation, 175
    mercantile capitalism, 143–44
    Merritt, Wesley E., 165
    Meshekinnoqquah (Little Turtle), 81, 83, 85
    Mesoamerica, 17–21
    Mexican War (1846), 117, 123, 130–32
    Mexican workers, deportation of, 176
    Mexico: abolishment of slavery by, 127; early Indigenous civilizations in, 17–21; independence movement in, 120; indigenous people of occupied, 125–30; land grants in, 123, 126–27; revolution of Indigenous farmers in, 167; US colonization of, 121–24; and US imperialism, 118–21; views on US invasion and occupation of, 130–32
    Miamis, 81–83
    Micronesians, 225–26
    migration(s): of Cherokees, 21; and cultivation of corn, 22, 30; to Indian Territory, 112, 115; interstate, 8; to and from reservations, 259n20; of Scots-Irish, 52–53, 54, 96; seasonal, 29; of Sioux, 152; through Mexico, 30
    migratory genocide, 149
    Mi’kmaq people, 67
    Miles, Nelson A., 139, 149, 164, 165
    militarization, 225–28
    military names, 56–57
    militia(s): in “Black Hawk War,” 111; in Cherokee territory, 89; colonial, 58–60, 64; in French and Indian War, 67, 69, 71; and Green Corn Rebellion, 167; in Illinois and Indiana Territories, 87; under Andrew Jackson, 97, 99; and Modocs, 223; and Muskogee Nation, 92; in Ohio Country, 72, 73, 81; regular army and, 94; Rough Riders, 165; Scots-Irish in, 53–54; and Second Amendment, 80; settler, 73, 82, 165; in Virginia, 75; in West, 137, 138
    Mills, Sid, 181–82
    Miner, H. Craig, 167, 168
    mining, 19, 209–10
    Mission Dolores, 127–28
    Modoc War, 223–24
    Monroe, James, 102, 133
    Monroe Doctrine, 3; Roosevelt Corollary to, 166
    Montezuma II, 21
    Montgomery, Archibald, 68–69
    Mooney, James, 112–13
    Moriscos, 37
    Morrill Act (1862), 140
    Mount Rushmore, 180, 207
    Murguía, Alejandro, 129
    Muskogee (Creek) Nation: and allotments, 158–59; and “civilization” project, 98; forced removal of, 113; governance of, 26; origins of, 30; Red Sticks of, 98–99, 100, 101; resistance by, 90–92; treaties with Confederacy by, 135
    Muskogee Creek Orphan Fund, 168
    Muskogee War (1813–14), 93, 97–101
    Myer, Dillon S., 174
    NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 1990), 206
    Narragansetts, 63
    National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), 57, 175, 184, 193
    National Indian Gaming Association, 210
    National Indian Youth Council (NIYC), 181, 182, 185, 210
    national narrative, 2, 3–4, 12–13
    Native American Graves