A History Of The Indians Of The United States

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‘Succeeds admirably...pulls together a myriad person, policies, events, and tribes into a bright thread that weaves itself through four-hundred-plus years of history. Here, indeed, is the best one-volume history of the American Indians.’ Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

The Apaches, Arapahos, Blackfeet, Cherokees, Cheyennes, Choctaws, Comanches and Crows...the Shawnees, Shoshonis, Sioux, Wichitas and Zunis. This comprehensive, compassionate and vivid study provides an unrivaled history of American Indians from the dawn of their first contact with Europeans to the late twentieth century. It is a remarkable record of Survival against the odds is the preservation of distinctive cultural identities through centuries of encroachment by a more numerous and aggressive race.

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About the Author

Angie Debo was the author of numerous books and essays; salient works in addition to those listed in the text include her MA thesis, "The Historical Background of the American Policy of Isolation," Smith College Studies in History 9 (April-July 1924), pp. 71-165; The Five Civilized Tribes: Report on Social and Economic Conditions (1951); Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place (1976); and Oklahoma: A Guide to the Sooner State (1941), edited with John M. Oskison.

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