History of American Indians: Exploring Diverse Roots

ISBN-13: 9780313386824 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 257 str.

Robert R. McCoy; Steven M. Fountain

Opis

The history of American Indians is an integral part of American history overall--a part that is often overlooked. History of American Indians: Exploring Diverse Roots provides a broad chronological overview of Native American history that challenges readers to grapple with the elemental themes of adaptation, continuity, and persistence. The book enables a deeper understanding of the origins and early history of American Indians and presents new scholarship based on the latest research.Readers will learn a wealth of American Indian history as well as appreciate the key role American Indians played in certain significant stages of American history as a whole. The direct connections between the events in the past and many current hot-button topics--such as race, climate change, water use, and other issues--are clearly identified. The book's straightforward, chronological presentation makes it a helpful and easy-to-read scholarly work appropriate for advanced high school and undergraduate college students.