Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 12: Plateau

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Overview

Provides a summary of what is known about the prehistory, history, and culture of the American Indians of the Plateau Culture area. This area is defined by the region in northwestern United States and southwestern Canada drained by the Columbia and Fraser rivers excepting certain portions of the northern Great Basin drained by the Snake River. The Plateau culture area includes the Interior Salishan peoples, the Sahaptian peoples, and several cultural isolates, Athapaskan outliers, and the Kootenai and Cayuse.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780160495144
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Publication date: 6/17/1998
Series: Hdbk North Amer Indians Series
Pages: 808
Sales rank: 259,142
Product dimensions: 9.30 (w) x 11.60 (h) x 2.20 (d)

Meet the Author

Deward E. Walker, Jr. is a professor in the departments of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He specializes in applied anthropology, demography, and ethnohistory.

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