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Red Man's America : a history of Indians in the United States

Title
Red Man's America : a history of Indians in the United States / Ruth Murray Underhill, illustrations by Marianne Stoller.
Author
Underhill, Ruth, 1883-1984.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1971]

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Additional Authors
Stoller, Marianne L.
Description
x, 395 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
A comprehensive study of the history and cultural traditions of the North American Indians. from pre-history to the present.
Subject
  • Indians of North America > History
  • Indians of North America
  • Antropologia Cult Social
  • Grupos Etnicos (Em Geral)
  • Indios
  • Etnografia
  • Indiens d'Amérique > Amérique > Histoire
  • Native Americans > History
  • USA
  • Indianer
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 351-363.
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.
ISBN
  • 0226841650
  • 9780226841656
  • 0226841642 (canceled/invalid)
  • 9780226841649 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
79171345
OCLC
  • ocm00264799
  • 264799
  • SCSB-113674
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library