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The Native Americans : the indigenous people of North America / editorial consultant, Colin F. Taylor ; technical consultant, William C. Sturtevant.

Taylor, Colin F. (Added Author). Sturtevant, William C. (Added Author).

Summary:

Before Columbus came to America, the population of Native Americans - thefirst, aboriginal peopes - was about 5 million. By 1890, it was 250,000. During the same period the white population in the U.S. increased from o to 75 million. As it did so, it usurped the ancestral lands of the Indians who had inhabited the continent for centuries and destroyed both the delicate balance of their economy and an age-old way of life. Pivotal events such as the removal, in the 1830s, of the Southeastern tribes to whatwas called Indian Territory, the Long March of the Navajo to imprisonmentat Fort Sumner in 1864, and the tragedy at Wounded Knee in 1890 marked the advance of a new culture that, by the end of the century, had savagely replaced a much older one.

Record details

ISBN: 0831763930 :
ISBN: 9780831763930
ISBN: 0765199270
ISBN: 9780765199270
Physical Description: 256 pages : illustrations ; 34 cm
Publisher: New York : Smithmark Publishers, �1991.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"A Salamander book"--Title page verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-252) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Introduction / Natalie Tobert -- The Southeast / William Sturtevant -- The Southwest / Nancy Parezo -- The Plains / Colin Taylor -- Plateau and Basin / Colin Taylor -- California / John Langellier -- The Northwest Coast / Victoria Wyatt -- The Subarctic / Colin Taylor -- The Arctic / Susan Rowley -- The Northeast / Colin Taylor.