Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Northeast: An Overview
  • Overview of the Northeast Culture Area
  • The Region Defined
  • Northeastern Peoples Before Columbus
  • Peoples and Cultures of the Northeast: An Overview
  • The Northeast During the Period of European Exploration and Colonization
  • Initial Contact, Exploration, and Trade
  • The Expanding Frontier
  • Behind the Frontier
  • The Northeast: 1850 to the Present
  • Guardians, Overseers, and Indian Agents
  • Labor Specializations in the Northeast
  • Consolidation of the Upper Great Lakes Cultural Pattern
  • Enfranchisement 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
  • People, Places, and Events in Northeast Native History
  • Historical Timeline for the Northeast
  • Resource Guide to Research and Theory
  • Indian Tribes
  • Primary Sources and the Northeast
  • Archaeology, the Adoption of Agriculture, and the Rise of Complex Chiefdoms and Social Inequality in the Northeast
  • Physical 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
  • Current Issues in Northeast Research
  • Early Encounters: The Impact of Colonization
  • Spirituality and Worldview.