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Subject(s)

• Indigenous peoples of North America [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Series

• New American nation series [More in this series]
• The New American Nation series

Summary note

Surveys the full history of the American Indians, examining Indian personal, social, religious, and cultural characteristics and conduct, their relationships with whites, and emerging new roles, identities, and goals.

Bibliographic references

Bibliography: p. 277-288.

Contents

• Origins of the American Indian
• Indian personality
• Indian social structure
• Indian-white relations in the context of equality
• Indian response to religious persuasion
• Indian wars in the Colonial period
• The American Revolution and its aftermath
• The coercion of the western Indians
• The Civil War and its aftermath --The reservation Indian
• Allotment and the Indian
• The Indian in search of an identity.

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ISBN

• 006014534X
• 9780060145347
• 0061318558 ((pbk.))
• 9780061318559 ((pbk.))
• 0060904364
• 9780060904364

LCCN

74001870

OCLC

960064

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