Red Man's America : a history of Indians in the United States /
A comprehensive study of the history and cultural traditions of the North American Indians. from pre-history to the present
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago [Ill.] :
University of Chicago Press,
1971
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| Edition: | Revised edition |
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Table of Contents:
- The Red Man discovers America : the first migrations and the peopling of the two continents
- America blooms : the earliest corn-growers and the high cultures of nuclear America
- Civilized tribes : the five important tribes of the Southeast who were later moved to Oklahoma
- Encirclement : pressure of whites in the Southeast and removal of Indians
- They have gone : Algonkian tribes of the Atlantic Seaboard
- A woodland league of nations : the five tribes of the Iroquois
- People of the Calumet : tribes of the Great Lakes and upper Mississippi
- The new rich of the plains :early residents of the buffalo country and others who moved in with the coming of the horse
- The peaceful corn-growers : Southwestern agriculturists : the Mogollon, Hohokam, Pueblo, and Pimans
- Late arrivals : the Navaho and Apache
- Those who had little to lose : tribes of the Great Basin and the Plateau
- West Coast medley : Indians of California
- The potlatch-givers : tribes of the Pacific Northwest, from northern California to the Canadian border
- Protective uncle : measures taken by the government on the Indian's behalf