America's fascinating Indian heritage

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America's fascinating Indian heritage / [editor, James A. Maxwell].

Maxwell, James A., 1912- (editor.).

Summary:

The Indians you encounter in this book may well be strangers to you. They are not the familiar characters of romantic legends, of western movies and television shows, of "covered wagon" novels. As you will discover in this realistic, carefully researched account, they were, instead, a remarkably ingenious, imaginative people who, long before Europeans arrived in the New World, had developed numerous cultures -- that differed as widely as those of the various nations of Europe -- some 200 languages, and the ability to survive in all the environments that exist between the Arctic Circle and subtropical Mexico. - Jacket flap.

Synthesis of North American Indian heritage.

Record details

ISBN: 0895770199
ISBN: 9780895770196
ISBN: 0895773724
ISBN: 9780895773722
Physical Description: 416 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Publisher: Pleasantville, New York : Reader's Digest Association, [1978]
Copyright: ©1978

Content descriptions

General Note:: At head of title: Reader's digest.

Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:: The first Indians: finding a new world -- Lost Indian civilizations: kingdoms of the sun -- North America in 1500 -- The Southeast: the five civilized tribes -- The Northeast and Great Lakes: woodland warriors -- The Great Plains: nomadic horsemen -- The Southwest: planters and herdsmen -- Great Basin, California plateau: foragers and gatherers -- The Northwest Coast: traders and fishermen -- The Subarctic: people of the caribou -- The Arctic: dwellers in an icy world -- Contemporary Indians: renaissance of an ancient people -- Seeing Indian history.