This new four-volume encyclopedia is the most comprehensive and up-to-date resource available on the history of Native Americans, providing a lively, authoritative survey ranging from human origins to present-day controversies.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Dedication.
Contributors.
Contents.
Volume I.
Introduction.
1: Pre-contact Indian History (ca. 20,000 BCE to ca. 1500 CE).
2: Indians in the Colonial Era and the American Revolution (1500 to 1800).
3: Indian Immigrants and Removals (1800 to 1850).
4: Westward Expansion, Indian Wars, and Reservations (1850 to 1900).
5: Indian Assimilation and Reorganization (1900 to 1945).
6: Termination and Indian Sovereignty (1945 to 2000).
7: Issues in American Indian History.
8: Alcoholism and Substance Abuse.
9: Archaeology and the First Americans.
10: Assimilation.
11: Bering Strait Theory.
12: Boarding Schools, United States and Canada.
13: Citizenship.
14: Demographics, Historical.
15: Disease, Historic and Contemporary.
16: Economic Development.
17: Education.
18: Education and Social Control.
19: Environment and Pollution.
20: Gambling.
21: Genocide.
22: Hazardous Waste.
23: Land, Identity and Ownership of, Land Rights.
24: Mining and Contemporary Environmental Problems.
25: Pan-Indianism.
26: Reservation Economic and Social Conditions.
27: Squaw, Debates Over Place Names.
28: Trade.
29: Treaty Diplomacy, with Summary of Selected Treaties.
30: Tribal Sovereignty.
31: Uranium Mining.
32: Water Rights.
33: Women in Native Woodlands Societies.
34: Events in American Indian History.
35: Bering Strait Theory.
36: Dalles Trading Area.
37: L'Anse aux Meadows Viking Settlement.
38: Norse Exploration of North America.
39: Doctrine of Discovery.
40: Missionaries, French Jesuit.
41: New France and Natives.
42: Spanish Influence.
43: Pequot War.
44: Beaver Wars.
45: Pueblo Revolt.
46: Russians, in the Arctic/Northwest.
47: French and Indian War.
48: California Indians, Genocide of.
49: Mission System, Spanish.
50: Boston Tea Party, Mohawk Images.
51: American Revolution, Native American Participation.
