American Indian History


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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


Author: Camilla Townsend
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 04/20/2009
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.38w x 0.33d
ISBN13: 9781405159081
ISBN10: 1405159081
BISAC Categories:
- History | Indigenous Peoples in the Americas
- History | United States | General

About the Author

Camilla Townsend is Professor of History at Rutgers University. She is the author of Tales of Two Cities: Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America (2000), Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma (2004) and Malintzin's Choices: An Indian Woman in the Conquest of Mexico (2006).