1st Edition

A Cultural Geography Of North American Indians

Edited By Thomas E. Ross Copyright 1987
    346 Pages
    by Routledge

    346 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book focuses on the effects of interaction between Indian and non-Indian peoples and on the complex relationships between Indians and their environments. It presents information for an accurate assessment of whether North American Indians can survive as a distinct culture. .

    Preface -- Introduction -- Indians in North America -- North American Indians in Historical Perspective -- Historical Geography and American Indian Development -- Two Worlds Collide: The European Advance into North America -- Spatial Awareness and Organization of the Land -- Sharing the Land: A Study in American Indian Territoriality -- Indian Delimitations of Primary Biogeographic Regions -- Land Ownership and Economic Development -- Indian Land in Southern Alberta -- The Loss of Indian Lands in Wisconsin, Montana and Arizona -- The Loss of Lands Inside Indian Reservations -- The Choctaw: Self Determination and Socioeconomic Development -- Migration, Cultural Change and Fusion -- The Iroquois Return to their Homeland: Military Retreat or Cultural Adjustment -- Women in Indian Removal: Stresses of Emigration -- Cultural Change and the Houma Indians: A Historical and Ecological Examination -- Cultural Fusion in Native-American Architecture: The Navajo Hogan -- Population Studies -- The Urban American Indian -- Early Twentieth Century Hopi Population -- The Lumbees: Population Growth of a Non-Reservation Indian Tribe -- Conclusions -- American Indian Problems and Prospects -- American Indian Population Living on and off Reservations by States: 1980