Description
Most books coping with North American Indigenous peoples are exhaustive in coverage. They provide in-depth discussion of quite a lot of culture areas which, even as valuable, from time to time signifies that the big picture context is lost. This book offers a corrective to that trend by providing a concise, thematic overview of the important thing issues facing Indigenous peoples in North The usa, from prehistory to the current. It integrates a culture area analysis within a thematic approach, covering archaeology, traditional lifeways, the colonial era, and up to date Indigenous culture. Muckle also explores the history of the relationship between Indigenous peoples and anthropologists with rigor and honesty. The result is a remarkably comprehensive book that provides a strong grounding for figuring out Indigenous cultures in North The usa.