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• ISBN: 0275981592 (set : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780275981594 (set : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 0275987205 (vol. 1 : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780275987206 (vol. 1 : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 0275987213 (vol. 2 : alk. paper)
• ISBN: 9780275987213 (vol. 2 : alk. paper)
• Physical Description: 2 volumes (xiv, 487 pages) : illustrations ; 25 cm.
• Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-472) and indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.

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Subject:

Indians of North America > Study and teaching.
Indians of North America > History.
Indians of North America > Social life and customs.

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