William C. Sturtevant, general editor; Alfonso Ortiz, volume editor. Covers the prehistory, general history, and languages of the entire Southwest, and the cultures and histories of the Pueblo Peoples. Contains copyright material. L.C. card 77-17162. Item 909
William C. Sturtevant, general editor; Alfonso Ortiz, volume editor. Includes 1 p. errata sheet. Covers the cultures, histories, and languages of the non-pueblo, or Circum-Pueblo, people of the Southwest and those on the northern fringe of Mesoamerica. Contains copyright material. L.C. card 77-17162.
William C. Sturtevant, general editor; Robert F. Heizer, volume editor. Summarizes what is known of the aboriginal culture forms and practices of about 60 California tribes. Describes the environment, prehistoric archeology, historical archeology, language classification, culture, population numbers since the time of European discovery, and the ...
The Handbook of North American Indians is a 20-volume encyclopedia summarizing knowledge about all Native peoples north of Mesoamerica, including cultures, languages, history, prehistory, and human biology, intended to serve as a standard reference work for anthropologists, historians, students, and the general reader. Each volume contains heavily ...
William C. Sturtevant, General Editor; Wilcomb E. Washburn, Volume Editor. Provides a basic reference work on the history of the interactions in North America between the Native American peoples and those, primarily from Europe and Africa, who arrived after 1492. Includes essays on: national policies; military situation; political relations; ...
Volume 11 covers the history and culture of the original inhabitants of the area which is now Nevada, Utah, western Colorado, portions of southern Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, eastern California, Arizona and New Mexico.
This work makes available for the first time in a single volume a representative collection of the major spiritual texts from the Native American Indian peoples of the East Coast. Elisabeth Tooker, professor of anthropology at Temple University and and editor of The Handbook of North American Indians, presents the sacred traditions of the Iroquois ...
This illustrated volume look at various cultural aspects, beliefs, key individuals and historical events in the lives of many tribes and groups of Indians. Divided into nine cultural areas, the 10 articles draw particular attention to the ways in which some of the early inhabitants adapted to living in widely varying environments, from the Arctic ...
10th volume to be published in a planned 20 volume set. William C. Sturtevant, general editor. Ives Goddard is the editor of this volume. Provides a basic reference work on the Native languages of North America, their characteristics and uses, their historical relationships, and the history of research on these languages.
This series profiles the different tribes and peoples indigenous to North America. Each volume covers a different area of North America and explores the history, culture, social organization, and languages of the tribes from that area. The books include illustrations, maps, drawings, paintings, photographs, essays by expert historians and ...
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Stapled in Card Covers
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Date Published: 1977
Description: Very Good + This booklet, 42 pages long, gives the Smithsonian's concerns for documentation and contextual information, but also includes official categories for ethnographic specimens, and thus serves as an excellent guide for other organizations' ethnographers for curating them once collected. 5.25" x 8.25". read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution
Date Published: 1979
Description: Book Binding tight. Text very good. No names, notes, underlining, highlighting. Hardcover in good condition, no dust jacket. Clear plastic cover from previous owner. Two scratches on front cover. 1979. read more
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The Native Americans: The Indigenous People of North America
