This land was theirs : a study of Native North Americans

Oswalt, Wendell H. (Author).

Record details

ISBN: 9780195367409 (pbk.)
ISBN: 0195367405 (pbk.)
Physical Description: print
xvii, 531 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Edition: 9th ed.
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Formatted Contents Note:

Learning about Native Americans -- Indian-non-indian relations -- The Netsilik : seal hunting and snowhouse eskimos -- The Chipewyan : subarctic hunters -- The Lower Kootenai : plateau fishers -- The Western Shoshone : subduers of the High Desert -- The Crow : Plains raiders and bison hunters -- The Cahuilla : gatherers in the Desert -- The Tlingit : Alaskan salmon fishers -- The Hopi : farmers of the desert -- The Navajo : transformations among a desert -- The Iroquois : warriors and farmers of the eastern woodlands -- The Eastern Cherokee : farmers of the southeast -- The Natchez : sophisticated farmers of the deep south -- Overviews.