UID:
edocfu_9959327339902883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 513 pages) :
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maps
ISBN:
058547172X
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9780585471723
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1405143789
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9781405143783
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9780470996461
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0470996463
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9786611213626
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6611213627
Series Statement:
Blackwell companions to American history ; 4
Content:
A Companion to American Indian History captures the thematic breadth of Native American history over the last forty years. Twenty-five original essays by leading scholars in the field, both American Indian and non-American Indian, bring an exciting modern perspective to Native American histories that were at one time related exclusively by Euro-American settlers. Contains 25 original essays by leading experts in Native American history. Covers the breadth of American Indian history, including contacts with settlers, religion, family, economy, law, education, gender issues, and culture. Surveys.
Note:
Historiography / Philip J. Deloria -- First contacts / John E. Kicza -- Wag the imperial dog: Indians and overseas empires in North America, 1650-1776 / Gregory Evans Dowd -- Health, disease, and demography / Russell Thornton -- Native American systems of knowledge / Clara Sue Kidwell -- Native American spirituality: history, theory, and reformulation / Lee Irwin -- Indians and Christianity / Willard Hughes Rollings -- Kinship, family kindreds, and community / Jay Miller -- American Indian warfare: the cycles of conflict and the militarization of Native North America / Tom Holm -- Languages: linguistic change and the study of Indian languages from colonial times to the present / Regna Darnell -- Performative traditions in American Indian history / L.G. Moses -- Indigenous art: creating value and sharing beauty / Nancy Parezo -- Native American literatures / P. Jane Hafen -- Wanted: more histories of Indian identity / Alexandra Harmon -- Labor and exchange in American Indian history / Patricia Albers -- The nature of conquest: Indians, Americans, and environmental history / Louis S. Warren -- Gender in Native America / Betty Bell -- Métis, Mestizo, and mixed-blood / Jennifer Brown and Theresa Schenck -- Transforming outsiders: captivity, adoption, and slavery reconsidered / Pauline Turner Strong -- Translation and cultural brokerage / Eric Hinderaker -- Federal and state policies and American Indians / Donald Fixico -- Native Americans and the United States, Canada, and Mexico / R. David Edmunds -- American Indian education: by Indians versus for Indians / K. Tsianina Lomawaima -- Indian law, sovereignty, and state law: Native people and the law / Sidney L. Harring -- Sovereignty / Taiaiake Alfred.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Companion to American Indian history. Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2002 ISBN 0631209751
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.1002/9780470996461
URL:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9780470996461
