Includes bibliographical references (p. [447]-472) and indexes.
Contents:
Volume I. Early indigenous North America: an overview -- Mexico And Mesoamerica: beginnings to European contact -- Native America meets Europe: the Colonial Era -- The transfer of ideas: Native confederacies and the evolution of democracy -- The explosion westward: the accelerating speed of frontier movement. Volume 2. The Northwest Coast and California -- The frontier closes on the Southwest and Great Plains -- The rise of the "vanishing race": Native American adaptations to assimilation -- A peoples' revival: 1961 to 1990: Native self-determination -- Majority culture borrowings from Native American peoples and cultures -- Contemporary issues in Native America.
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