Native Americans in the United States similar to other indigenous people created political economic and social movements to meet and adjust to major changes that impacted their cultures. For centuries Native Americans dealt with the onslaught of nonIndian land claims the appropriation of their homelands and the destruction of their ways of life. Through various movements Native Americans accepted rejected or accommodated themselves to the nontraditional worldviews of the colonizers and their policies.The A to Z of Native American Movementsthrough a chronology an introductory essay appendixes a bibliography and hundreds of crossreferenced dictionary entries on important persons places events and institutions and significant political economic social and cultural aspectsis a useful reference on topics dealing with key movements organizations leadership strategies and the major issues Native Americans have confronted.