Indians of the United States

Indians of the United States

by Clark Wissler
Indians of the United States

Indians of the United States

by Clark Wissler

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Overview

A revision of Wissler's authoritative study, this volume traces the history of the American Indian from prehistoric times to the present. It gives a broad survey of the tribes and cultures of all the great Indian language families.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780385020190
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 03/21/1967
Edition description: REV
Pages: 416
Product dimensions: 5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.90(d)

Table of Contents

Prefacev
Introductionxiii
Part IThe Indian in Prehistoric America
IThe Aboriginal Pioneer3
IIRise of the Stone Boilers12
IIIThe Farmers and the Potters20
IVThe Builders28
Aboriginal Apartment Houses
VThe Coming of the Grand Pipe37
Part IIThe Great Indian Families
VIThe Great Indian Families52
VIIThe Grand Old Algonkin Family55
How the Algonkin Lived
Dress and Fashions
The Powwow
Fate of the Atlantic Tribes
Wars in New England
Retreat of the Delaware
VIIIThe Old Northwest73
Pontiac's War
The Last Stand
The War of 1812
Keokuk and Black Hawk
IXThe Western Buffalo Hunters85
The Blackfoot Group
The Arapaho and the Cheyenne
XThe Northern and Western Algonkin96
The Naskapi
The Tribes of the Great Lakes
The California Stragglers
Possible Relatives
The Salish
Algonkin Characteristics
XIThe Iroquois Family109
The League of the Six Nations
The Huron
The Erie
The Susquehanna and the Tuscarora
A Quarrel with the Pawnee
How the Six Nations Lived
The Mingo and Chief Logan
Cornplanter
Red Jacket
Joseph Brant
The Cherokee
The Cherokee Who Stayed Behind
Sequoya
XIIThe Family of the Caddo133
Petalasharo the Reformer
Life in Pawnee Villages
XIIIThe Muskhogean Family141
The Natchez
The Choctaw and the Chickasaw
The Seminole
XIVThe Siouan Family155
The Dakota
The Assiniboin
How the Teton Lived
History of the Eastern Dakota
Waneta
War with the United States
History of the Teton
The Great Depression
The Hidatsa and the Crow
The Mandan
The Southern Siouans
Some Distant Relatives
XVThe Penutian Families183
The Californians
The Modoc
The Chinook
The Nez Perce
Chief Joseph
XVIThe Dene Family193
The Totem-Pole Makers
The Babiche People
The Stragglers in the Plains
The Apache
The Navaho
XVIIThe Uto-Aztecan Family213
The Pueblo Villages
The Kiowa and the Comanche
The Ute
The Diggers of the Desert
The Pima
Washakie and the Shoshoni
Sacajawea, or Bird Woman
Part IIIIndian Life in General
XVIIIThe Indian Way of Life237
Population Density
Are the Indians Dying Out?
The Daily Round of Life
Woman's Work
Indian Culture Areas
XIXWhen the White Man Went Indian251
The Indian as a Child of Nature
XXThree Strange Gifts from the White Man257
The Gun
The Horse. Liquor
XXIThe Mystery of the Indian Mind270
XXIILife on a Reservation281
XXIIIDid the Indian Live in Vain?292
Publications on Indians298
Appendix301
Index307
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