Native America : a history

Summary: "I hope to provide students interested in the Native American past with an understanding of how the varied parts of the story fit into a larger whole. My goal is to tell a story of native peoples, to advance an argument. To that end, I focus upon twelve native communities whose histories encapsulate what I see as the principal themes and developments in Native American history"--

Record details

ISBN: 9781118937112
ISBN: 1118937112
Physical Description: print
xi, 360 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: Second edition.
Publisher: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2018.
Copyright: ©2018

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Myths and legends -- Worlds new and worlds old -- Living in the new world -- Native peoples and the fall of European empires -- Native peoples and the rise of a new American empire -- Relocations and removes -- The invasion of the great west -- The age of dispossession -- New deals and old deals -- Sovereign nations and colonized nations.