Native Nations: Cultures and Histories of Native North America / Edition 1

Native Nations: Cultures and Histories of Native North America / Edition 1

by Nancy Bonvillain
ISBN-10:
0138632421
ISBN-13:
9780138632427
Pub. Date:
02/16/2001
Publisher:
Pearson
ISBN-10:
0138632421
ISBN-13:
9780138632427
Pub. Date:
02/16/2001
Publisher:
Pearson
Native Nations: Cultures and Histories of Native North America / Edition 1

Native Nations: Cultures and Histories of Native North America / Edition 1

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Overview

This basic book for about the North American Indians is organized by region and includes a final epilogue on current issues, helping readers to learn about important tribes in each region by placing them in a geographical context. Aboriginal culture, Native history, and contemporary Native American communities. Includes up-to-date contemporary population and economic data. Canadian examples and data demonstrates that both U.S. and Canadian tribes are important to the overall North American Indian culture. For those interested in Native American History.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780138632427
Publisher: Pearson
Publication date: 02/16/2001
Edition description: Older Edition
Pages: 648
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Nancy Bonvillain is professor of Anthropology and Linguistics at Bard College at Simon’s Rock. She is the author of Women and Men: Cultural Constructs of Gender, Fifth Edition, and Language, Culture, and Communication, Eighth Edition. She is also the author of 20 separate ethnographies of Indigenous societies.

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Preface

This book presents an intensive discussion of the cultures, histories, and contemporary lives of members of the First Nations of North America. Following an introduction (Chapter One), is an overview (Chapter Two) of historical processes that have affected indigenous peoples since about 1500. Both Chapters One and Two discuss the complexity of population statistics that in the past and present have seriously undercounted Native communities and individuals. The book is thereafter divided into eight regional parts (Northeast, Southeast, Plains, Great Basin, Southwest, California, Northwest Coast, and Subarctic and Arctic). Each part begins with an overview chapter followed by one (or in some cases two) chapters that deal in detail with a First Nation within the region. The book concludes (Chapter Twenty-three) with a review of contemporary indigenous economic and political issues and also summarizes current economic and social data collected by the governments of Canada and the United States.

I wish to express my thanks to the following Prentice Hall reviewers for their useful comments on the manuscript: Stephen Greymorning, University of Montana; Timothy J. Kloberdanz, North Dakota State University; Sally McBeth, University of Northern Colorado; Martha McCullough, University of Nebraska; and Dean Snow, Pennsylvania State University. I also wish to thank Nancy Roberts, Publisher, and Sharon Chambliss, Managing Editor for anthropology, for their encouragement and advice throughout the process of bringing this book to completion. I appreciate the patience and excellent work of Cathy Dargi, who transcribed and typed the early draft of the book. And I thank Marc Melanson of Statistics Canada, Halifax, for his aid in obtaining linguistic, social, and economic data for First Nations Mi'kmaq, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), and Innu (Montagnais) bands.

My deep appreciation goes to the people at Akwesasne for the personal and intellectual support that I have always received there. I am especially grateful to Gloria Thompson, Ernest Benedict, Beatrice Francis, and their families, as well as to Hilda Swamp for the many days over many years spent in their company. My admiration goes to them and others at Akwesasne who have led and participated in many struggles for cultural and political sovereignty. It is to them that this book is dedicated.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.
2. Prologue.

I. THE NORTHEAST.

3. Native Nations of the Northeast.
4. The Mohawks.
5. The Mi'kmaqs.

II. THE SOUTHEAST.

6. Native Nations of the Southeast.
7. The Choctaws.

III. THE PLAINS.

8. Native Nations of the Plains.
9. The Teton Lakotas.
10. The Hidatsas.

IV. THE GREAT BASIN.

11. Native Nations of the Great Basin.
12. The Shoshones.

V. THE SOUTHWEST.

13. Native Nations of the Southwest.
14. The Zunis.
15. The Dine (or Navajos).

VI. CALIFORNIA.

16. Native Nations of California.
17. The Pomos.

VII. THE NORTHWEST COAST.

18. Native Nations of the Northwest Coast.
19. The Kwakwaka'wakw (or Kwakiutls).

VIII. THE SUBARCTIC AND ARCTIC.

20. Native Nations of the Subarctic and Arctic.
21. The Innus (or Montagnais).
22. The Inuit.
23. Epilogue.
Appendix A: Federally-Recognized Tribes in the U.S.
Appendix B: Officially Registered Bands in Canada.

Preface

Preface

This book presents an intensive discussion of the cultures, histories, and contemporary lives of members of the First Nations of North America. Following an introduction (Chapter One), is an overview (Chapter Two) of historical processes that have affected indigenous peoples since about 1500. Both Chapters One and Two discuss the complexity of population statistics that in the past and present have seriously undercounted Native communities and individuals. The book is thereafter divided into eight regional parts (Northeast, Southeast, Plains, Great Basin, Southwest, California, Northwest Coast, and Subarctic and Arctic). Each part begins with an overview chapter followed by one (or in some cases two) chapters that deal in detail with a First Nation within the region. The book concludes (Chapter Twenty-three) with a review of contemporary indigenous economic and political issues and also summarizes current economic and social data collected by the governments of Canada and the United States.

I wish to express my thanks to the following Prentice Hall reviewers for their useful comments on the manuscript: Stephen Greymorning, University of Montana; Timothy J. Kloberdanz, North Dakota State University; Sally McBeth, University of Northern Colorado; Martha McCullough, University of Nebraska; and Dean Snow, Pennsylvania State University. I also wish to thank Nancy Roberts, Publisher, and Sharon Chambliss, Managing Editor for anthropology, for their encouragement and advice throughout the process of bringing this book to completion. I appreciate the patience and excellent work of Cathy Dargi, who transcribed and typed the early draft of the book. And I thank Marc Melanson of Statistics Canada, Halifax, for his aid in obtaining linguistic, social, and economic data for First Nations Mi'kmaq, Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), and Innu (Montagnais) bands.

My deep appreciation goes to the people at Akwesasne for the personal and intellectual support that I have always received there. I am especially grateful to Gloria Thompson, Ernest Benedict, Beatrice Francis, and their families, as well as to Hilda Swamp for the many days over many years spent in their company. My admiration goes to them and others at Akwesasne who have led and participated in many struggles for cultural and political sovereignty. It is to them that this book is dedicated.

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