American Indian History: A Documentary Reader (Uncovering the Past: Documentary Readers in American History)
Book Details
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN1405159073
ISBN-139781405159074
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Sales Rank4,673,968
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
This Reader from the Uncovering the Past series provides a comprehensive introduction to American Indian history.
- Over 60 primary documents allow the voices of natives to illuminate the American past
- Includes samples of native languages just above the full translations of particular texts
- Provides comprehensive introductions and headnotes, as well as images, an extensive bibliography, and suggestions for further research
- Includes such texts as a decoded Maya inscription, letters written during the French and Indian War on the distribution of small pox blankets, and a diatribe by General George Armstrong Custer shortly before he was killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn
