Record details

• Physical Description: 326 pages illustrations, portraits, maps (on lining-papers) 22 cm
• Edition: [1st ed.].
• Publisher: New York, W.W. Norton [1947]

Content descriptions

General Note:

This book is published by special arrangement with Penguin Books, Inc. - title page verso.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

"Suggested readings": pages 315-321.

Formatted Contents Note:

The American Indian and the long hope -- The Indian of prehistory -- The empire of the Incas -- The dominion of the Aztecs -- The Spanish conquest -- Spanish rule and Las Casas -- The continuing Spanish record -- The Indians and the republics -- The Indians of the United States -- Conquest north of the Rio Grande -- Iroquois and Cherokees -- California and Plains Indians -- The final struggle commences and prevails -- The Indian new deal -- The first inter-American conference on Indian life -- Summary and prediction.

Awards Note:

Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, 1948.

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