"The received idea of Native American history -- as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's 1970 mega-bestselling Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee -- has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux d…
Publisher description: Recovering lost voices and exploring issues intimate and institutional, this sweeping examination of Spanish California illuminates Indian struggles against a confining colonial order and amidst harrowing depopulation. To capture the enormous challenges In…
America had fifteen thousand years of history before Christopher Columbus kicked-off centuries of European invasions. This book tells the story of the American Indian nations and their world before the Europeans.
America had fifteen thousand years of history before Christopher Columbus kicked-off centuries of European invasions. This book tells the story of the American Indian nations and their world before the Europeans.
America had fifteen thousand years of history before Christopher Columbus kicked-off centuries of European invasions. This book tells the story of the American Indian nations and their world before the Europeans.
America had fifteen thousand years of history before Christopher Columbus kicked-off centuries of European invasions. This book tells the story of the American Indian nations and their world before the Europeans.
This [book] draws on many disciplines to trace the intricate history of New World peoples from their Stone Age beginnings through their most exalted civilizations and subsequent defeat and degradation while teasing out the complicated influences they have had on the world we liv…
The most expansive one-volume history of the native peoples of North America ever published.
Until recently, any discussion of theories and the Native American past was often exiled to introductory chapters and footnotes. But now, in Clearing a Path, Nancy Shoemaker has assembled a collection of original essays by leading scholars of Native American studies that puts th…
Discusses the native prehistoric cultures of Mesoamerica, looking at the points of view of the major native groups of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. The editors trace the cultural history and evolutionary development of such groups as the Olmec, the Maya, the Azte…