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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.
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 ...
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.
Everyday Life of the North American Indians
... Ping Ferry, Eric and Jane Force, Jerry Gambill, LeRoy and Ann Hafen, Helene Harris, Jeanette Henry, Wilbur Jacobs, Harry C. James, Richard Ketchum, Oliver La Farge, Claude LéviStrauss, Ronnie Lupe, William G. McLoughlin, ...
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 study of the social and economic development, religion, and culture of selected Indian tribes in North America, based on archeological research
A look at the varied and fascinating cultures of the North American Indian.