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Book SynopsisThis book provides the first comprehensive history of the Native Peoples of North America from their arrival in the western hemisphere to the present. It describes how Native Peoples have dealt with the environmental diversity of North America and have responded to the different European colonial regimes and national governments that have established themselves in recent centuries. It also examines the development of a pan-Indian identity since the nineteenth century and provides a unique comparison not found in other histories of how Native Peoples have fared in Canada and the United States.
Table of Contents9. 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.
