Record details

• Physical Description: xiii, 384, xiv pages : illustrations, facsimiles, maps, portraits ; 25 cm
• Edition: [1st ed.].
• Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1968.

Content descriptions

General Note:

"A Borzoi book."

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-384) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Stereotypes and the real indian -- The diversities of Indians -- "Indianness" -- The white man's debt to indians -- Early man in the Americas -- Agriculture and the rise of population -- The native peoples of the far north -- The indians of the subarctic -- The tribes of the northwest Pacific coast -- The tribes of the northeast woodlands -- The tribes of the southeastern United States -- The plains indians -- The peoples of the Great Basin -- The indians of the pleateau -- The native peoples of California -- The indians of the Southwest -- The Indians of northern Mexico -- Indian civilizations of Middle America -- Indians of Central America and the Caribbean -- Indian civilizations of Ecuador and the Central Andes -- The indians of the southern Andes -- The South American tropical forest tribes -- The marginal nomadic indians of South America -- The impact of the white man on indians -- The white man's conquest of the Indians: Latin America -- The white man's conquest of the Indians: The United State and Canada -- Indians today and their fight for survival.

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Indians of North America > History.
Indians of South America > History.
Indians > History.