Handbook of North American Indians
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The Handbook of North American Indians is a multi-volume set of encyclopedias published by the Smithsonian Institution beginning in 1978. To date, thirteen volumes are published.
This work documents information about all Indigenous peoples of the Americas north of Mesoamerica, including cultural and physical aspects of the people, language family, history, and prehistory. This is a reference work for historians, anthropologists, scholars, and the general reader. The series utilized noted authorities for each topic. The set is illustrated, indexed, and has extensive bibliographies. Volumes may be purchased individually.
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Handbook of North American Indians. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution : For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents., 1978-.
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Environment, Origins, and Population / Douglas H. Ubelaker, Vol. Ed.. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution : For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents. 2006. ISBN 0-16-077511-6
72 chapters on 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. 1,160 pp.
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History of Indian-white relations / Wilcomb E. Washburn, editor. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution : For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents., 1988. ISBN 0-16-004583-5
This work provides information on the history of the interactions in North America between the Indigenous peoples of the Americas and those, primarily from Europe and Africa, who arrived after 1492. Chapter topics include national policies, political relations, military interactions, economic aspects affecting the people, religious clashes, and the American Indian in contemporary popular culture through literature and movies.
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Arctic / , editor. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution : For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents., 1984. ISBN 0-16-004580-0
Included in this sixty chapter volume are Eskimo, Inuit, and Aleut of the United States, Canada, Greenland, and Russia.
[edit] Volume 6
Subarctic. June Helm, editor. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution : For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents., 1981. ISBN 0-87474-186-6
This volume of the series covers languages, culture and history of native peoples from interior Alaska to Labrador. Included are the Athabaskan, Atikamekw, Cree, Ojibwa, Saulteaux, Chipewyan, Dene, and Tli Cho peoples.
[edit] Volume 7
Northwest Coast / Wayne Suttles, editor. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution : For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents., 1990. ISBN 0-87474-187-4
This work chronicles the native peoples of British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. The Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, Haisla, Haihais, Heiltsuk (Bella Bella), Oowekeeno, Nuxálk Nation (Bella Coola), Kwakwaka'wakw (Kwakiutl), Nootkans, Makah, Quileute, Chemakum, Kwalhioqua, Clatskanie, Chinookan, Kalapuyan, Tillamook, Alsean, Siuslawan, Coosan, Athapaskans, and Takelma tribes are covered in this volume of the series.
[edit] Volume 8
California / Heizer, R.F.
[edit] Volume 9
Southwest
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Southwest / A. Ortiz
[edit] Volume 11
Great Basin / Warren L. D'Azevedo, editor
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Plateau / Deward E. Walker, Jr., volume editor. Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution : For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents., 1998. ISBN 0-16-049514-8
This volume documents Pacific Northwest and Canadian indigenous peoples in the Columbia River area. Included is information on Salishan, Sahaptin, Kootenai, Cayuse, and Athabaskan tribes.
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Plains / Raymond J. DeMallie, volume editor.
[edit] Volume 14
Southeast / Raymond D. Fogelson, editor
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Northeast / B.G. Trigger
[edit] Volume 17
Languages / Ives Goddard, volume editor
