North American Indians: A Very Short Introduction

by Theda Perdue, Michael D. Green, Michael Green

Book Overview

When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How did their societies evolve and what challenges do they face today?
Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green begin by describing how nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers followed the bison and woolly mammoth over the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195307542
• ISBN13: 9780195307542
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.6" x 6.9"