PDF-(BOOK)-Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 17: Languages

Provides a basic reference work on the Native languages of North America their characteristics and uses their historical relationships and the history of research on these languages Foldout color volume map. The . A/D. . CRAP. . methodology:. A. uthor: Who wrote/said it? Do they matter?. D. ate: When was it written/said? Does this matter?. C. ontext: What was historically going on at the time?. R. eason for writing: What was the author’s motive?. America?. The varied cultures of Native Americans. Main Ideas Addressed . How and why did man begin to settle down and begin to develop communities?. How environment impacts culture and lifestyle.. How does surplus impact technology?. Key Concept 1. Before the arrival of the Europeans, native populations in North America developed a wide variety of social, political and economic structures based in part on interactions with the environment and each other. 15,000 . BCE . to . 1492CE. Why does geography matter?. Use your map, make some assumptions about the people living in the area…explain why.. What do . you know?. How did people get to North America?. Chapter 3. . New Empires in the Americas . Section 1. The Conquistadores. Cort. és and the Aztec. Conquistadores – Spanish soldiers who led military expeditions in the . Americas. Moctezuma. II was ruler of Aztec Empire. . Summarizes what is known of the aboriginal culture forms and practices of about 60 California tribes. Describes the environment, prehistoric archeology, historical archeology, language classification, culture, population numbers since the time of European discovery, and the history of exploration and settlement by Whites. William C. Sturtevant, general editor Alfonso Ortiz, volume editor. Includes 1 p. errata sheet. Covers the cultures, histories, and languages of the non-pueblo, or Circum-Pueblo, people of the Southwest and those on the northern fringe of Mesoamerica.Contains copyright material. L.C. card 77-17162. William C. Sturtevant, general editor Alfonso Ortiz, volume editor. Covers the prehistory, general history, and languages of the entire Southwest, and the cultures and histories of the Pueblo Peoples.Contains copyright material. L.C. card 77-17162. Item 909 Provides a summary of what is known about the prehistory, history, and culture of the American Indians of the Plateau Culture area. This area is defined by the region in northwestern United States and southwestern Canada drained by the Columbia and Fraser rivers excepting certain portions of the northern Great Basin drained by the Snake River. The Plateau culture area includes the Interior Salishan peoples, the Sahaptian peoples, and several cultural isolates, Athapaskan outliers, and the Kootenai and Cayuse. Provides background information on the native peoples of the Northwest Coastal environment, their languages, and early history. Also contains sections on: mythology, art, and the Indian Shaker Church. This volume provides a basic reference work on Indians and Arctic peoples as a continuing element in a changing and sometimes difficult environment responding to the social forces around them, making such accommodations as circumstances require, but remaining identifiably Indian in a contemporary society. William C. Sturtevant, general editor Robert F. Heizer, volume editor. Summarizes what is known of the aboriginal culture forms and practices of about 60 California tribes. Describes the environment, prehistoric archeology, historical archeology, language classification, culture, population numbers since the time of European discovery, and the history of exploration and settlement by Whites.Contains copyright material. L.C. card 77-17162. Item 909-D-1. Provides a basic reference work on the Native languages of North America, their characteristics and uses, their historical relationships, and the history of research on these languages. The Indians of California, in their ethnographic present, offered the widest cultural range to be found in any area of the United States. In the north they approximated the cultures of the Northwest Coast in the center they developed distinctive, elaborate cultures based on local food supplies and in the south and east they approximated the more primitive desert groups — all in all showing a host of adaptations within a relatively small geographical area. In addition, despite successive decimations by missionaries, colonial administrations, settlers, and exploiters, enough Indians survived (though sometimes only a couple of each group) to make their study possible. For these reasons they have long been an important topic in anthropological circles.Far and away the most important work ever prepared about this complex situation was the monumental Handbook of the Indians of California by Kroeber. Based on more than 15 years of exhaustive research by Kroeber, it is a summation of just about everything of importance known about these Indians. Kroeber covered demographic situations, linguistic relations (which are also extraordinarily complex), social structures, folkways, religion, material culture, and whatever else was needed to offer a full picture of each “tribe.” The resulting book is a survey of each group, the typologically more important groups like the Yurok, Pomo, Maidu, Yokuts, and Mohave naturally receiving the most detail. Indispensable for every student of the American Indian, it can be read with great profit by both specialists and lay readers.