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Volume #12 of 20 in The North American Indian series contains detailed information on the The Hopi. The subject areas covered on each tribe are histories, customs, ceremonies, mythologies and comparative vocabularies.
In 2012 a complete set of the original edition has been auctioned for some USD 1.4 million. This is the first time in over a century that a modestly priced, high-quality republication has been available.
The early form of maize found at Bat Cave, called Zea mays, had been domesticated from its wild ancestor, teosinte (Zea mexicana), as early as 5000 b.c., somewhere in the highlands of southeastern Mexico. The grain reached the Southwest ...
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Throughout the book, Perdue and Green stress the great diversity of indigenous peoples in America, who spoke more than 400 different languages before the arrival of Europeans and whose ways of life varied according to the environments they ...
Photographs by the great nineteenth-century photographer depict the beauty of the North American Indian and his way of life and are accompanied by an insightful commentary.
A brief survey of life in five North American Indian tribes--Makah, Hopi, Creek, Penobscot, and Mandan--at the time Columbus arrived in the New World.
A photographic book providing a record of the Indians of North America between 1850 and the First World War as seen by early photographers.
A look at the varied and fascinating cultures of the North American Indian.
A reference guide to Native American history, culture, and life contains contributions by more than 260 experts, and includes articles on present-day community life, treaties, and the status of women