Product Description: When Columbus landed in 1492, the New World was far from being a vast expanse of empty wilderness: it was home to some seventy-five million people. They ranged from the Arctic to Tierra del Fuego, spoke as many as two thousand different languages, and lived in groups that varied from small bands of hunter-gatherers to the sophisticated and dazzling empires of the Incas and Aztecs...read more

Product Description: Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country broadens the scope of conventional study of the Lewis and Clark expedition to include Native American perspectives. Frederick E. Hoxie and Jay T. Nelson present the expedition’s long-term impact on the “Indian Country” and its residents through compelling interviews conducted with Native Americans over the past two centuries, secondary literature, Lewis and Clark travel journals, and other primary sources from the Newberry Library’s exhibit Lewis and Clark and the Indian Country...read more

Product Description: This volume brings together an impressive collection of important works covering nearly every aspect of early Native American history, from contact and exchange to diplomacy, religion, warfare, and disease. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "This is an important book. In the latter nineteenth century, diverse and influential elements in white America combined forces to settle the 'Indian question' through assimilation. . . . The results were the essentially treaty-breaking Dawes Act of 1887, related legislation, and dubious court decisions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: At the 1795 treaty council that sealed Anthony Wayne's victory at Fallen Timbers in northwest Ohio, the Wyandot leader Tarhe spoke for the assembled Native leaders when he admonished the American emissaries: "Take care of your little ones; an impartial father equally regards all his children...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A reference guide to Native American history, culture, and life contains contributions by more than 260 experts, and includes articles on present-day community life, treaties, and the status of women

Product Description: This is not a conventional textbook. It contains chronologically arranged essays by thirteen authors who speak from a variety of disciplines and perspectives. The chapters can be read together or in conjunction with a survey text...read more

Product Description: This history of the Crow Indians links their nineteenth-century nomadic life and their modern existence. The Crows not only withstood the dislocation and conquest visited on them after 1805, but acted in the midst of these events to construct a modern Indian community--a nation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This history of the Crow Indians links their nineteenth-century nomadic life and their modern existence. The Crows not only withstood the dislocation and conquest visited on them after 1805, but acted in the midst of these events to construct a modern Indian community--a nation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The idea of discovery has frequently shaped the way Americans think about         themselves and their history. The process neither began nor ended with         Columbus. As the contributors here make clear, many forgotten discoveries---of         language, self, and nature, for example---have been a part of our national         experience...read more

Examines the culture, history, and changing fortunes of the Crow Indians