- Paperback: 464 pages
- Publisher: Pimlico; New Ed edition (6 July 1995)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 071265979X
- ISBN-13: 978-0712659796
- Product Dimensions: 15.7 x 3.6 x 23.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 426,675 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A comprehensive and very colourful survey of the Indians of the United States. It also analyses the problems that have best these peoples since their first contact with Europeans.
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The Apaches, Arapahos, Blackfeet, Cherokees, Cheyennes, Choctaws, Comanches and Crows... the Shawnees, Shoshonis, Sioux, Wichitas and Zunis. This comprehensive, compassionate and vivid study provides an unrivalled history of American Indians from the dawn of their first contact with Europeans to the late twentieth century. It is a remarkable record of survival against the odds - the preservation of distinctive cultural identities through centuries of encroachment by a more numerous and aggressive race. (19950104)
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Although these aboriginal Americans varied widely from the "western" stereotype-they did not all live in tipis, wear Sioux war bonnets, or speak one "Indian language"-yet they had many common characteristics. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
From the beginning, the book deals with the arrival of the Spanish, French and English settlers, and later the Russians; it tells a story of exploitation, betrayal, and the attempted, systematic removal, of all things native.
The forcing of the native tribes, to relocate to reservations, and then the invasion of these last territories, shows how badly they were treated (and still are in many areas).
During the Civil War, tribes were set against each other, to do the white man's dirty work.
Promises of dedicated homelands were then broken, or if they did materialise, were then carved up and taken away.
I know this could be seen as Indian "propaganda", but it does show how they have been mistreated, since the European settlers first appeared.
There is a need to hear "both sides" of a story, to get some idea of what has actually taken place.
In my view, this book provides such a viewpoint.
The chapters on the whole, cover the United States, with the final chapters looking at the plight of the natives in Alaska.
History repeats itself here, with the Indians & Eskimo's being confined to reservations, and these lands then being removed.
It strikes home, when a dam project was defeated, because of the effects on the wildlife, totally negecting the hundreds of native families that also lived there - they did not count and so could be ignored.
It is not all "doom and gloom", as there have been some success stories, with the Indians prospering, and holding their own, against the odds.
For anyone, looking into the history of the native American Indian, I would recommend this book.
The forcing of the native tribes, to relocate to reservations, and then the invasion of these last territories, shows how badly they were treated (and still are in many areas).
During the Civil War, tribes were set against each other, to do the white man's dirty work.
Promises of dedicated homelands were then broken, or if they did materialise, were then carved up and taken away.
I know this could be seen as Indian "propaganda", but it does show how they have been mistreated, since the European settlers first appeared.
There is a need to hear "both sides" of a story, to get some idea of what has actually taken place.
In my view, this book provides such a viewpoint.
The chapters on the whole, cover the United States, with the final chapters looking at the plight of the natives in Alaska.
History repeats itself here, with the Indians & Eskimo's being confined to reservations, and these lands then being removed.
It strikes home, when a dam project was defeated, because of the effects on the wildlife, totally negecting the hundreds of native families that also lived there - they did not count and so could be ignored.
It is not all "doom and gloom", as there have been some success stories, with the Indians prospering, and holding their own, against the odds.
For anyone, looking into the history of the native American Indian, I would recommend this book.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Anyone who has read any of Angie Debo's books, will certainly not be disappointed in A History of the Indians of the United States, as usual the subject has been well researched, and well presented,it is neither "Pro Indian" nor "Anti White man" and leaves the reader to make up their own minds as to the events that took place in North America in the 19th century.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Anyone who has read any of Angie Debo's books, will certainly not be disappointed in A History of the Indians of the United States, as usual the subject has been well researched, and well presented,it is neither "Pro Indian" nor "Anti White man" and leaves the reader to make up their own minds as to the events that took place in North America in the 19th century.
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