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An Introduction to Native North America -- Pearson eText
- Author : Mark Q. Sutton
- Publisher : Routledge
- Release : 26 August 2015
An Introduction to Native North America provides a basic introduction to the native peoples of North America, including both the United States and Canada. It covers the history of research, basic prehistory, the European invasion and the impact of Europeans on Native cultures. Additionally, much of the book is written from the perspective of the ethnographic present, and the various cultures are described as they were at the specific times noted in the text. Teaching and Learning Experiences: Improve Critical
An Introduction to Native North America
- Author : Mark Q. Sutton
- Publisher : Routledge
- Release : 28 July 2016
An Introduction to Native North America provides a basic introduction to the Native Peoples of North America, covering what are now the United States, northern Mexico, and Canada. It covers the history of research, basic prehistory, the European invasion and the impact of Europeans on Native cultures. A final chapter covers contemporary Native Americans, including issues of religion, health, and politics. In this updated and revised new edition, Mark Q. Sutton has expanded and improved the existing text as well
An Introduction to Native North America
- Author : Mark Q. Sutton
- Publisher : Boston ; Toronto : Allyn and Bacon
- Release : 17 January 2021
An Introduction to Native North America provides a basic introduction to the Native Peoples of North America, including both Eskimos and Indians. Beginning with a discussion of the geography of North America, this excellent text delves into the history of research, basic prehistory, the European invasion, and the impact of Europeans on Native cultures. A final chapter covers contemporary Native Americans, including issues of religion, health, and politics. Much of the book is also written from the perspective of the
An Introduction to Native North America
- Author : Mark Q. Sutton
- Publisher : Prentice Hall
- Release : 17 January 2021
This text begins with a discussion of the geography of North America, then delves into the history of research, basic prehistory of North America, the European invasion, and the impact of Europeans on Native cultures. Also discussed are issues relating to contemporary Native Americans, including religion, health, and politics.
An Introduction to Native North America -- Pearson eText
- Author : Mark Q. Sutton
- Publisher : Routledge
- Release : 26 August 2015
An Introduction to Native North America provides a basic introduction to the native peoples of North America, including both the United States and Canada. It covers the history of research, basic prehistory, the European invasion and the impact of Europeans on Native cultures. Additionally, much of the book is written from the perspective of the ethnographic present, and the various cultures are described as they were at the specific times noted in the text. Teaching and Learning Experiences: Improve Critical
An Introduction to Native North America
- Author : Mark Q. Sutton
- Publisher : Pearson Higher Ed
- Release : 22 December 2011
This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Native Peoples of North America. An Introduction to Native North America provides a basic introduction to the native peoples of North America, including both the United States and Canada. It covers the history of research, basic prehistory, the European invasion and the impact of Europeans on Native cultures. Additionally, much of the
Native North America
- Author : Larry J. Zimmerman,Brian Molyneaux
- Publisher : Unknown
- Release : 17 January 1996
Presents a brief history of Native Americans, and features a region-by-region exploration of individual culture areas, discussing spiritual observances, the powwow, oral storytelling, rites of passage, plant rituals, the drum, the ghost dance, dreams, and the challenges of modern life.
North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction
- Author : Theda Perdue,Michael D. Green
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- Release : 10 August 2010
When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers followed the bison and woolly mammoth over the Bering land mass between Asia and what is now Alaska between 25,000
Indigenous Peoples of North America
- Author : Robert James Muckle
- Publisher : University of Toronto Press
- Release : 17 January 2021
In this thoughtful book, Robert J. Muckle provides a brief, thematic overview of the key issues facing Indigenous peoples in North America from prehistory to the present.
Archaeology of Native North America
- Author : Dean R Snow, Professor
- Publisher : Routledge
- Release : 04 September 2015
This comprehensive text is intended for the junior-senior level course in North American Archaeology. Written by accomplished scholar Dean Snow, this new text approaches native North America from the perspective of evolutionary ecology. Succinct, streamlined chapters present an extensive groundwork for supplementary material, or serve as a core text.The narrative covers all of Mesoamerica, and explicates the links between the part of North America covered by the United States and Canada and the portions covered by Mexico, Guatemala, Belize,
Native North American Art
- Author : Janet Catherine Berlo,Ruth B. Phillips
- Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
- Release : 28 August 2014
This lively introductory survey of indigenous North American arts from ancient times to the present explores both the shared themes and imagery found across the continent and the distinctive traditions of each region. Focusing on the richness of artwork created in the US and Canada, Native North American Art, Second Edition, discusses 3,000 years of architecture, wood and rock carvings, basketry, dance masks, clothing and more. The expanded text discusses twentieth- and twenty-first-century arts in all media including works by James
New Perspectives on Native North America
- Author : Sergei Kan,Pauline Turner Strong,Raymond Fogelson
- Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
- Release : 01 January 2006
In this volume some of the leading scholars working in Native North America explore contemporary perspectives on Native culture, history, and representation. Written in honor of the anthropologist Raymond D. Fogelson, the volume charts the currents of contemporary scholarship while offering an invigorating challenge to researchers in the field. The essays employ a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches and range widely across time and space. The introduction and first section consider the origins and legacies of various strands of
Native American Worldviews
- Author : Jerry H. Gill
- Publisher : Humanities Press International
- Release : 17 January 2021
In this excellent survey of Native American worldviews, philosopher of religion Jerry H. Gill emphasizes the value of tracing the overarching themes and broad contours of Native American belief systems. He presents an integrated view to serve as an introduction to ways of life and perspectives on the world far different from those of the dominant Euro-American culture. Drawing on the scholarship of anthropologists and specialists in American Indian Studies, Gill brings together much original research in broad, accessible chapters.
Women and Power in Native North America
- Author : Laura F. Klein,Lillian A. Ackerman
- Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
- Release : 17 January 2021
Power is understood to be manifested in a multiplicity of ways: through cosmology, economic control, and formal hierarchy. In the Native societies examined, power is continually created and redefined through individual life stages and through the history of the society. The important issue is autonomy - whether, or to what extent, individuals are autonomous in living their lives. Each author demonstrates that women in a particular cultural area of aboriginal North America had (and have) more power than many previous
Exploring Native North America
- Author : David Hurst Thomas
- Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
- Release : 17 January 2021
A discussion of eighteen North American archaeological sites dating from 9300 to 4000 B.C.E. examines the scientific data and techniques supporting conclusions about early Americans and their lives.