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The Native peoples of North America : a history /

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Covers the history of the North American Indians from their arrival on this continent to the present.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Johansen, Bruce E. (Bruce Elliott), 1950- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005.
Series:Native America (Praeger Publishers)
Subjects:
Indians of North America > Study and teaching.
Indians of North America > History.
Indians of North America > Social life and customs.
Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation.
Peuples autochtones > Amérique du Nord > Histoire.
Peuples autochtones > Amérique du Nord > Mœurs et coutumes.
Peuples autochtones > Amérique du Nord > Acculturation.
Indians of North America > Cultural assimilation
Indians of North America
Indians of North America > Social life and customs
Indians of North America > Study and teaching
Indigenes Volk
Nordamerika
Iwi taketake.
Native Americans > North America.
Native Americans > Social life and customs.
History
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Volume I. Early indigenous North America: an overview
  • Mexico And Mesoamerica: beginnings to European contact
  • Native America meets Europe: the Colonial Era
  • The transfer of ideas: Native confederacies and the evolution of democracy
  • The explosion westward: the accelerating speed of frontier movement.
  • Volume 2. The Northwest Coast and California
  • The frontier closes on the Southwest and Great Plains
  • The rise of the "vanishing race": Native American adaptations to assimilation
  • A peoples' revival: 1961 to 1990: Native self-determination
  • Majority culture borrowings from Native American peoples and cultures
  • Contemporary issues in Native America.