Scholars from a variety of fields have contributed to this volume to explore what Native American studies has been, what it is, and what it may be in the future.
Scholars from a variety of fields have contributed to this volume to explore what Native American studies has been, what it is, and what it may be in ...
Winter counts pictorial calendars by which Plains Indians kept track of their past marked each year with a picture of a memorable event.TheLakota, or Western Sioux, recorded many different events in their winter counts, but all include the year the stars fell, the spectacular Leonid meteor shower of 1833 34. This volume is an unprecedented assemblage of information on the important collection of Lakota winter counts at the Smithsonian, a core resource for the study of Lakota history and culture. Fourteen winter counts are presented in detail, with a chapter devoted to the newly discovered...
Winter counts pictorial calendars by which Plains Indians kept track of their past marked each year with a picture of a memorable event.TheLakota, or ...
The Cherokees: A Population History is the first full-length demographic study of an American Indian group from the protohistorical period to the present. Thornton shows the effects of disease, warfare, genocide, miscegenation, removal and relocation, and destruction of traditional lifeways on the Cherokees. He discusses their mysterious origins, their first contact with Europeans (prob-ably in 1540), and their fluctuation in population during the eighteenth century, when the Old World brought them smallpox. The toll taken by massive relocations in the following century, most notably the...
The Cherokees: A Population History is the first full-length demographic study of an American Indian group from the protohistorical period to the pres...
This demographic overview of North American Indian history describes in detail the holocaust that, even today, white Americans tend to dismiss as an unfortunate concomitant of Manifest Destiny. They wish to forget that, as Euro-Americans invaded North America and prospered in the "New World," the numbers of native peoples declined sharply; entire tribes, often in the space of a few years, were "wiped from the face of the earth."
The fires of the holocaust that consumed American Indians blazed in the fevers of newly encountered diseases, the flash of settlers and soldiers guns, the...
This demographic overview of North American Indian history describes in detail the holocaust that, even today, white Americans tend to dismiss as a...
