Preface
Introduction
1. Early Indigenous North America: An Overview
2. Mexico and Mesoamerica: Beginnings to European Contact
3. Native America Meets Europe: The Colonial Era
4. The Transfer of Ideas: Native Confederacies and the Evolution of
Democracy
5. The Explosion Westward: The Accelerating Speed of Frontier
Movement
6. The Northwest Coast and California
7. The Frontier Closes on the Southwest and Great Plains
8. The Rise of the "Vanishing Race": Native American Adaptations to
Assimilation
9. A People's Revival—1961 to 1990: Native Self-Determination
10. Majority Culture Borrowings from Native American Peoples
Cultures
11. Contemporary Issues in Native America
Selected Bibliography
Index
Bruce Elliott Johansen is an American academic and author. He is the Frederick W. Kayser Professor of Communication at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and is the author or editor of many books and articles, notably on environmental and Native American issues.
The Native Peoples of North America brilliantly succeeds in portraying cultures indigenous to North America from their earliest origins to the present.... These two volumes will undoubtedly become an integral part of Native American history. - Booklist ""Expertly compiled... very highly recommended. The Native Peoples of North America provides essential and comprehensive coverage."" - The Bookwatch
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