Summarizes what is known of the aboriginal culture forms and practices of about 60 California tribes. Describes the environment, prehistoric archeology, historical archeology, language classification, culture, population numbers since the time of European discovery, and the history of exploration and settlement by Whites.

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 8: California

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Provides background information on the native peoples of the Northwest Coastal environment, their languages, and early history. Also contains sections on: mythology, art, and the Indian Shaker Church.

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 7: Northwest Coast

History

Americas

Provides a summary of what is known about the prehistory, history, and culture of the American Indians of the Plateau Culture area. This area is defined by the region in northwestern United States and southwestern Canada drained by the Columbia and Fraser rivers excepting certain portions of the northern Great Basin drained by the Snake River. The Plateau culture area includes the Interior Salishan peoples, the Sahaptian peoples, and several cultural isolates, Athapaskan outliers, and the Kootenai and Cayuse.

Handbook of North American Indians:Plateau 12

This volume provides a basic reference work on Indians and Arctic peoples as a continuing element in a changing and sometimes difficult environment responding to the social forces around them, making such accommodations as circumstances require, but remaining identifiably Indian in a contemporary society.

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 2: Indians in Contemporary Society

Covers the natural environment of the continent to which Indian cultures adapted in prehistoric and historic times, natural resources utilized by these cultures, current knowledge of the earliest Indian occupation (before 9,000 B.C.), and human biology of Indian and Eskimo (Inuit) populations, prehistoric, historic and modern.

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 3: Environment, Origins, and Population

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Provides a basic reference work on the history of the interactions in North America between the Native American peoples and those, primarily from Europe and Africa, who arrived after 1492. Includes essays on: national policies; military situation; political relations; economic relations; religious relations; and the concept of Indians in literature, popular culture, and movies.

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 4: History of Indian-White Relations

Describes the prehistory, history, and cultures of Eskimo people of North America who lived in the Arctic area.

Handbook of North American Indians Volume 5 Arctic

Describes the prehistory, history, and cultures of the aboriginal people of North America who lived in the Subarctic culture area, defined as extending from the coast of Labrador on the Atlantic Ocean to Cook Inlet and beyond on the Pacific.

Handbook of North American Indians: Subarctic (Vol.6)

This volume covers the prehistory, general history, and languages of the entire Southwest, and the cultures and histories of the Pueblo peoples.

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 9: Southwest

This volume covers the cultures, histories, and languages of the non-pueblo, or Circum-Pueblo, people of the Southwest and those on the northern fringe of Mesoamerica.

Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 10: Southwest

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