Format:
1 online resource (327 pages)
ISBN:
9780231504355
Series Statement:
The Columbia Guides to American Indian History and Culture
Content:
-- Choice.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I The Northeast: An Overview -- 1 Overview of the Northeast Culture Area -- The Region Defined -- Northeastern Peoples Before Columbus -- Peoples and Cultures of the Northeast: An Overview -- 2 The Northeast During the Period of European Exploration and Colonization -- Initial Contact, Exploration, and Trade -- 3 The Expanding Frontier -- Behind the Frontier -- 4 The Northeast: 1850 to the Present -- Guardians, Overseers, and Indian Agents -- Labor Specializations in the Northeast -- Consolidation of the Upper Great Lakes Cultural Pattern -- Enfranchisement and Termination -- Boarding Schools -- Pan-Indianism -- Urban Indians -- Political Activism and Radical Politics, 1950 to the Present -- Land Claims and Federal Recognition -- Gaming -- Language and Cultural Revival -- Conclusions: The Northeast Culture Area Today -- References for Part I -- PART II People, Places, and Events in Northeast Native History -- PART III Historical TImeline for the Northeast -- PART IV Resource Guide to Research and Theory -- Introduction -- 1. Indian Tribes -- 2. Primary Sources and the Northeast -- Archaeology, the Adoption of Agriculture, and the Rise of Complex Chiefdoms and Social Inequality in the Northeast -- Physical Anthropology -- First Impressions: Early Contact Period Documents -- Captivity Narratives -- Ethnography -- Language, Language Contact, and Early Linguistic Studies -- Descriptions of Native Languages -- Pidgins, Jargons, and Creoles -- Language Loss -- 3. Current Issues in Northeast Research -- Early Encounters: The Impact of Colonization -- 4. Spirituality and Worldview -- Traditional Spirituality -- Changing Native American Religions -- 5. Politics and Economy -- Economy and Subsistence, Then and Now -- Warfare, Diplomacy, and Frontier Studies.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231114530
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780231114530
Language:
English
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https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=909079
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