Table of Contents

9. The Great Plains from the arrival of the horse to 1885 Loretta Fowler; 10. The Greater Southwest and California from the beginning of European settlement to the 1880s Howard R. Lamar with Sam Truett; 11. The Northwest from the beginning of trade with Europeans to the 1880s Robin A. Fisher; 12. The Reservation period, 1880–1960 Frederick E. Hoxie; 13. The Northern Interior, 1600 to modern times Arthur J. Ray; 14. The Arctic from Norse Contact to modern times David Damas; 15. The Native American renaissance, 1960–1994 Wilcomb E. Washburn; Bibliographical essays.

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This book provides the first comprehensive history of the Native Peoples of North America from their arrival in the western hemisphere to the present.

Reviews

In this wide-ranging history of the Native peoples of North America from prehistory to the present, edited by a Canadian archaeologist and a former historian with the Smithsonian, a variety of authors present a huge amount of information in a very concise format. Chapters are both thematic ("Native peoples in Euro-American historiography") and regional ("the Arctic from Norse contact to modern times"). Where experts have differing opinions, such as the earliest dates for Native peoples in the Americas or the population of North America in 1492, authors explain their positions and refer readers to other points of view through discussion and footnotes. As the broad nature of the essays precludes presenting specific tribal information, this work complements other recent reference works, such as the Department of Commerce's American Indian Reservations and Trust Areas (1996). Despite indifferent indexes and occasional information gaps, these volumes should have a prominent place in most library reference collections.‘Mary B. Davis, Huntington Free Lib., Bronx