Handbook of North American Indians
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION EDITION
Published by the U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: Publication Started: 1978- in 20 vols. In Progress
A 20-volume encyclopedia summarizing knowledge about all Native peoples north of Mesoamerica, including cultures, languages, history, prehistory, and human biology. Standard reference work for anthropologists, historians, students, and the general reader. Chapters by the main authorities on each topic. Area volumes include separate chapters on all tribes. Heavily illustrated, extensive bibliographies, well indexed. Each volume may be purchased and used independently. North American Indians. 11/1974 University of Chicago Press. Smithsonian Institution Staff. Library Binding ISBN 0-226-76617-9
Handbook of North American Indians: Vol 1 William C. Sturtevant(Editor) (Not Yet Published -- On Order)
Handbook of North American Indians: Vol 2 William C. Sturtevant(Editor) (Not Yet Published -- On Order)
NEW-2007: Handbook of North American Indians, Vol 3: Environment, Origins, and Population. Available Date 03/29/07. United States Government Printing Office. Edited by Ubelaker, Douglas; Sturtevant, William C. Hardcover, ISBN 047-000-00416-1; 9780160775116; 1160 pgs.. William C. Sturtevant, General Editor; Douglas H. Ubelaker, Volume Editor. Provides a basic reference work on the environmental and biological background within which Native American Societies developed. Summarizes the early and late human biology or physical anthropology of Indians and Eskimos (Inuit). Surveys the earliest prehistoric cultures.
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Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 4: History of Indian-White Relations. 12/1988 United States Government Printing Office. Edited by William C. Sturtevant and Wilcomb E. Washburn. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-16-004583-5 S/N 047-000-00406-3; 852p. Provides a basic reference work on the history of the interactions in North America between the Native American peoples and those, primarily from Europe and Africa, who arrived after 1492. Includes essays on: national policies; military situation; political relations; economic relations; religious relations; and the concept of Indians in literature, popular culture, and movies. Alternate ISBN: 0-16-004583-5. Alternate edition: 04/1989 Smithsonian Institution Press. Edited by William C. Sturtevant and Wilcomb E. Washburn. illus. Coll. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-87474-184-X; 852p.
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Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 5: Arctic. 02/1985 United States Government Printing Office. William C. Sturtevant and David Damas. illus. Boxed, Slipcased, and/or casebound ISBN 0-16-004580-0; 845 pages. Describes the prehistory, history, and culture of the Eskimo people of North America who lived in the Arctic area. Alternate ISBN: 0-16-004580-0
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Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 6: Subartic. Ed. J. Helm, 02/1985 United States Government Printing Office. William C. Sturtevant and David Damas. illus. Boxed, Slipcased, and/or casebound ISBN 0-16- S/N 047-000-00398-9; 853 pages. Describes the prehistory, history, and cultures of the aboriginal people of North America who lived in the Subarctic culture area, defined as extending from the coast of Labrador on the Atlantic Ocean to Cook Inlet and beyond on the Pacific. Alternate ISBN: 0-16-004578-9
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Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 7: Northwest Coast. 08/1990 United States Government Printing Office. William C. Sturtevant and Wayne Suttles. illus. Boxed, Slipcased, and/or casebound ISBN 0-16-020390-2 S/N 047-000-00408-0; 793 pages. Provides background information on the native peoples of the Northwest Coastal environment, their languages, and early history. Also contains sections on: mythology, art, and the Indian Shaker Church. Alternate ISBN: 16-020390-2
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Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 8: California. 1990 United States Government Printing Office. William C. Sturtevant and Robert F. Heizer. illus. Boxed, Slipcased, and/or casebound ISBN 0-16-004574-6 S/N 047-000-00347-4. 800 pages.
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Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 9: Southwest. 1990 United States Government Printing Office. William C. Sturtevant and Alfonzo Ortiz. illus. Boxed, Slipcased, and/or casebound ISBN 0-16-004577-0 S/N 047-000-00361-0. 701 pages. Covers the prehistory, general history, and languages of the entire Southwest, and the cultures and histories of the Pueblo peoples. Alternate ISBN: 0-16-004577-0
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Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 10: Southwest. 10/1983 United States Government Printing Office. William C. Sturtevant and Alfonso Ortiz. illus. Boxed, Slipcased, and/or casebound ISBN 0-16-004579-7 S/N 047-000-00390-3. 884 pages; ill. and 1 errata sheet.. Covers the cultures, histories, and languages of the non-pueblo, or Circum-Pueblo people of the Southwest and those on the northern fringe of Mesoamerica. (Clothbound) 884 p. Alternate ISBN: 0-16-004579-7
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Handbook of North American Indians: Vol. 11: Great Basin. 1986 United States Government Printing Office. Edited by William C. Sturtevant and Warren L. D'Azevedo. illus. Trade Cloth ISBN 0-16-004581-9 S/N 047-000-00401-2; 863 pages; ill.. Covers the history and culture of the original inhabitants of the area which is now Nevada, Utah, western Colorado, portions of southern Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, eastern California, Arizona, and New Mexico. Alternate ISBN: 0-16-004581-9
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Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 12: Plateau. 04/1998 United States Government Printing Office. Boxed, Slipcased, and/or casebound ISBN 0-16-049514-8. 807 p.; ill. Provides a summary of what is known about the prehistory, history, and culture of the American Indians of the Plateau culture area. This area is defined by the region in the Northwestern United States and Southwestern Canada drained by the Columbia and Fraser rivers, except certain portions of the northern Great Basin drained by the Snake River. The Plateau culture area includes the Interior Salishan peoples, the Sahaptian peoples, and several cultural isolates, Athapaskan outliers, and the Kootenai and Cayuse. Alternate ISBN: 0-16-049514-8
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Handbook of North American Indians, Vol. 13: Plains Indians; Nov 2001, United States Government Printing Office. Edited by William C. Sturtevant and Warren L. D'Azevedo; Trade Cloth; Box or Slipcased, ISBN: 0-16-050400-7; 2 books. (1392 p.) ill.. Describes the prehistory, history, and culture of the aboriginal peoples who lived in the region of tall-grass prairies and short-grass high plains of North America. Alternate ISBN: 0-16-050400-7. Two volume set.
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NEW-2004: Handbook of North American Indians Vol 14: Southeast.
Florida Seminole, 1852. Smithsonian, NAA.
Raymond D. FOGELSON, Volume Editor.
Published in 2004The Southeast Indians were sophisticated farmers, hunters, gatherers, and fishers occupying a diverse region extending from the Blue Ridge Mountains of the Southern
Appalachians, the Carolina Piedmont, the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains, Florida, and west of the mountains to the rich valley of the southern Mississippi River. The complexity and uniqueness of the Southeast culture area is detailed in 64 chapters written by 63 leading authorities, both anthropologists and historians.