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Title: The Native Tribes of North America: A Concise Encyclopedia
Author: Michael Johnson
Language: angielski
Year: 1993
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Wydawnictwo: Windrow & Greene Ltd.
ISBN: 1872004032
Total pages: 154

This book fills a long-felt need: for a concise reference work on the Native American peoples, from the Canadian Arctic the Rio Grande, which falls between Multi-volume academic works at one extreme, and "coffee table" confections at he other.
It offers the essential basic information on the identity, kinships, locations and populations (both in aboriginal times and present day),and cultural characteristics of some 400 separately identifiable peoples, both extinct and surviving. Drawing on a huge mass of primary research information, this cohesive guide to the native populations of a vast continent paints a picture of rich diversity. The text is organised for the use of student and interested general reader alike, into major chapters on the cultural/geographical regions of North America: the Northeastern Woodlands, Southeastern Woodlands, Plains and Prairie, Plateau, Great Basin, California, Southwest, Northwest Coast, Subarctic and Arctic. Within these chapters the tribes are grouped into the linguistic families which are today accepted as the most meaningful patterns of kinship. Entry subjects range from major nations which survive today with tens of thousands of members, to small groups long extinct as separate communities. Major entries, introduced by summaries of the material and spiritual culture of each region, indicate the historical locations and subsequent wanderings of each tribe; milestones in the history of their contact with the white man; and of particular importance, given today's revival of Indian ethnic and tribal consciousness - their present day locations and population, and the degree to which material and spiritual culture survives.
The book is illustrated with regional maps; with a selection of rare early photographs; and with a dazzling portfolio of plates specially prepared by a noted illustrator Richard Hook, offering a dramatic visual introduction to the huge range of Native American material culture.