The Columbia guide to American Indians of the Northeast /
Descriptions of Indian peoples of the Northeast date to the Norse sagas, centuries before permanent European settlement, and the region has been the setting for a long history of contact, conflict, and accommodation between natives and newcomers. The focus of an extraordinarily vital field of schola...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, New York ; West Sussex, England :
Columbia University Press,
1893.
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Colección: | Columbia guides to American Indian history and culture.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Maps; 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 PatternEnfranchisement 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; Illustrations; 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 NortheastPhysical 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; Writing Systems and Literacy; 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 NowWarfare, Diplomacy, and Frontier Studies; Iroquois Politics, the League, and the Origins of the Constitution; The Middle Ground; 6. Women in Native America; 7. Ecological Indians?; 8. Racial Politics; 9. Land Claims, Resistance, Sovereignty, and Federal Recognition; 10. Gaming; 11. Native American Graves Protection Act (NAGPRA); 12. Postmodern Critique and Cultural Studies; 13. Cultural Renaissance; Language Revitalization; The Arts; 14. Telling Their Own Story; Biographies and Autobiographies; 15. General Works; Encyclopedias, Compendia, Dictionaries.
- 16. Film17. Museums and the Northeast; 18. Electronic Resources; Conclusion; Index.