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Indians of the United States

By: Clark Wissler

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Paperback | 21 March 1967 | Edition Number 1

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418 Pages

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A revision of Wissler''s authoritative study, this volume traces the history of the American Indian from prehistoric times to the present. It gives a broad survey of the tribes and cultures of all the great Indian language families.

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This should prove an extremely useful book, for clearly, and with enough detail to make it colorful and interesting, the curator of anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History, traces not only the history of the individual tribes, but gives passing glimpses of their way of life. He does not pretend to make an exhaustive study of any tribe or tribes. But he does leave one with a general picture of the distinguishing marks, the ways of life, the present status of these people with a history older than our own. A bibliography at the close should prove a lead-on to readers. The part played by the white man in destroying the Indian way of life is not overlooked, and blame is placed where it belongs. Not confined to any one part of the country, but covering all parts. This volume is the first of a science series. (Kirkus Reviews)

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Preface to the Revised Edition	p. ix
Preface to the Original Edition	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
The Indian in Prehistoric America
The Aboriginal Pioneer	p. 3
Rise of the Stone Boilers	p. 16
The Farmers and the Potters	p. 25
The Builders	p. 35
Aboriginal Apartment Houses
The Coming of the Grand Pipe	p. 47
The Great Indian Families
The Great Indian Families	p. 63
The Grand Old Algonkin Family	p. 68
How the Algonkin Lived
Dress and Fashions
The Powwow
Fate of the Atlantic Tribes
Wars in New England
Retreat of the Delaware
The Old Northwest	p. 88
Pontiac's War
The Last Stand
The War of 1812
Keokuk and Black Hawk
The Western Buffalo Hunters	p. 101
The Blackfoot Group
The Arapaho and the Cheyenne
The Northern and Western Algonkin	p. 113
The Naskapi
The Tribes of the Great Lakes
The West Coast Peoples
Possible Relatives
Algonkin Characteristics
The Iroquois Family	p. 126
The League of the Six Nations
The Huron
The Erie
The Susquehanna and the Tuscarora
A Quarrel with the Pawnee
How the Six Nations Lived
The Mingo and Chief Logan
Cornplanter
Red Jacket
Joseph Brant
The Cherokee
The Cherokee Who Stayed Behind
Sequoya
The Family of the Caddo	p. 152
Petalasharo the Reformer
Life in Pawnee Villages
The Southeastern Tribes	p. 159
The Natchez. The Choctaw and the Chickasaw
The Seminole
The Siouan Family	p. 173
The Dakota
The Assiniboin
How the Teton Lived
History of the Eastern Dakota
Waneta
War with the United States
History of the Teton
The Great Depression
The Hidatsa and the Crow
The Mandan
The Southern Siouans
Some Distant Relatives
The Penutian Families	p. 202
The Californians
The Modoc
The Chinook
The Nez Perce
Chief Joseph
The Nadene Families	p. 213
The Totem-Pole Makers
The Northern Hunters
The Stragglers in the Plains
The Apache
The Navaho
The Aztec-Tanoan Families	p. 234
The Pueblo Villages
The Kiowa and the Comanche
The Ute
The Diggers of the Desert
The Pima and the Papago
Washakie and the Shoshoni
Sacajawea, or Bird Woman
Indian Life in General
The Indian Way of Life	p. 261
Population Density
Are the Indians Dying Out?
The Daily Round of Life
Woman's Work
Indian Culture Areas
When the White Man Went Indian	p. 276
The Indian as a Child of Nature
Three Strange Gifts from the White Man	p. 283
The Gun
The Horse
Liquor
The Mystery of the Indian Mind	p. 298
Life on a Reservation	p. 310
Did the Indian Live in Vain?	p. 326
Bibliography	p. 333
Index	p. 353
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