RED MAN’S AMERICA [SOLD]

RED MAN’S AMERICA

By Ruth M. Underhill

Published by The University of Chicago Press, Chicago

First Edition, Hardback, 1953, 400 pages, illustrated, no slip cover

Condition: very good condition text, with some soiling of cover

From the FOREWORD

It is time that the average citizen should have some picture of the red man, not as a figure of myth or children’s games, but as a fellow-citizen, with problems important to us all.  The following pages have space only for the highlights of Indian history, but they can, at least, arrange these in a connected pattern.  They can make plain the Indian’s varied origins, backgrounds, and customs and point out reasons why one group may have failed, so far, in adjustment to new ways while another has succeeded.  Moreover, they can turn the familiar facts of American history so that they are seen from the Indian’s point of view rather than that of the white.

Table of CONTENTS

1.   The Red Man Discovers America: The First Migrations and the Peopling of the Two Continents

2.   America Blooms: The Earliest Corn-growers and the High Cultures of Nuclear America

3.   Civilized Tribes: The Five Important Tribes of the Southeast Who Were Later Moved to Oklahoma

4.   Encirclement: Pressure of Whites in the Southeast and Removal of Indians

5.   They Have Gone: Algonkian Tribes of the Atlantic Seaboard

6.   A Woodland League of Nations: The Five Tribes of the Iroquois

7.   People of the Calumet: Tribes of the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi

8.   The New Rich of the Plains: Early Residents of the Buffalo Country and Others who Moved in with the Coming of the Horse

9.   The Peaceful Corn-Growers: Southwestern Agriculturists: The Mogollon, Hohokam, Pueblo, and Pimans

10.  Late Arrivals: The Navajo and Apache

11.  Those Who Had Little to Lose: Tribes of the Great Basin and the Plateau

12.  West Coast Medley: Indians of California

13.  The Potlatch-Givers: Tribes of the Pacific Northwest from Northern California to the Canadian Border

14.  Protective Uncle: Measures Taken by the Government on the Indian’s Behalf