Native Americans: A History in Pictures by Arlene Hirchfelder; Arlene Hirschfelder
	List Price:   $24.95 Unit Price:   $19.96 You Save:   $4.99 (20%) ISBN-10:   078945162X ISBN-13:   9780789451620 Publisher:   DK Publishing, Inc. Edition:   illustrated Category:   Non-Fiction Pub. Date:   April 2000 Pages:   192 Format:   Hardcover
Subjects
INDIANS OF NORTH AMERICA_HISTORY
Description/Notes
Combining an extraordinary collection of photographs with an insightful and illuminating narrative by Native American expert Arlene Hirschfelder, this magnificent book casts a fresh light on the history of the Native American. From the Native people's first contact with European explorers in the early 1500s to the realities of twentieth-century life, every major event in the history of North America's indigenous people is featured. Each story in this tragic, but always intriguing, episode of world history is placed in its chronological context: from early attempts to assimilate Native Americans with the newly emerging white population and the role of indigenous people in the American Civil War, to the ceaseless struggle to hold on to their homelands and their defined role in contemporary society. Specially commissioned maps clearly show the shifting and diminishing Native territories, while eyewitness accounts form participants in the story add a further poignancy to the narrative. Native Americans also investigates the economic, social, and spiritual life of the Native people: a traditional Indian childhood, the nineteenth-century boarding schools, religious beliefs and ceremonies, and ways of hunting and farming. This is a compelling documentary record, which, once opened, is impossible to put down. To help readers fully understand Native Americans, this book offers a well-researched text of their history, spiritual beliefs and adaptation to modern life, and weaves in numerous archival photographs, eyewitness accounts, side bar references, chronological details, and maps.