The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas

This book provides the first comprehensive history of the Native Peoples of North America from their arrival in the western hemisphere to the present.

Bruce G. Trigger (Edited by), Wilcomb E. Washburn (Edited by)

9780521573931, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 28 October 1996

522 pages, 25 maps
23.5 x 16.2 x 3.7 cm, 0.859 kg

This book provides the first comprehensive history of the Native Peoples of North America from their arrival in the western hemisphere to the present. It describes how Native Peoples have dealt with the environmental diversity of North America and have responded to the different European colonial regimes and national governments that have established themselves in recent centuries. It also examines the development of a pan-Indian identity since the nineteenth century and provides a unique comparison not found in other histories of how Native Peoples have fared in Canada and the United States.

9. The Great Plains from the arrival of the horse to 1885 Loretta Fowler
10. The Greater Southwest and California from the beginning of European settlement to the 1880s Howard R. Lamar with Sam Truett
11. The Northwest from the beginning of trade with Europeans to the 1880s Robin A. Fisher
12. The Reservation period, 1880–1960 Frederick E. Hoxie
13. The Northern Interior, 1600 to modern times Arthur J. Ray
14. The Arctic from Norse Contact to modern times David Damas
15. The Native American renaissance, 1960–1994 Wilcomb E. Washburn
Bibliographical essays.

Subject Areas: History of the Americas [HBJK]