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The volumes of the Smithsonian Institution's distinguished Handbook of North American Indians series are amongst the most popular selling publications available through the Government Printing Office (GPO). In honor of National American Indian Heritage Month, GPO is currently offering for sale the following publications, with an emphasis on Native American cultures, languages, history, prehistory, human biology, and legal rights.
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: Indians in Contemporary Society. This is the 15th of a 20-volume set planned to give an encyclopedic summary of what is known about the prehistory, history, and cultures of the aboriginal peoples of North America north of the urban civilizations of central Mexico. This volume provides a basic reference work on Indians and Arctic peoples as a continuing element in a changing and sometimes difficult environment responding to the social forces around them, making such accommodations as circumstances require, but remaining identifiably Indian in a contemporary society. Year/Pages: 2008: 591 p.; ill.
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$64.00
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: Describes the prehistory, history, and culture of the aboriginal peoples who lived in the region north of the urban civilizations of central Mexico. Note: Cloth. 2004. Year/Pages: 2004: 1042 p.; ill.
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$75.50
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: 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. Note: Cloth. Year/Pages: 2001: 2 bks. (1392 p.) ill.
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$111.50
Handbook of North American Indians, V. 12, Plateau Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: 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 northwestern United States and southwestern Canada drained by the Columbia and Fraser rivers excepting 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. Cloth. Year/Pages: 1998: 807 p.; ill.
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$70.50
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: Provides a basic reference work on the Native languages of North America, their characteristics and uses, their historical relationships, and the history of research on these languages. Year/Pages: 1996: 971 p.; ill., 2 maps in pocket.
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$94.00
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: 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. Cloth. Year/Pages: 1990: 793 p.; ill.
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$65.00
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: 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. Cloth. Year/Pages: 1988: 852 p.; ill.
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$65.00
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: This volume 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. Cloth. Year/Pages: 1986: 868 p.; ill.
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$66.00
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: Describes the prehistory, history, and cultures of Eskimo people of North America who lived in the Arctic area. Cloth. Year/Pages: 1984: 845 p.; ill.
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$66.00
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: This volume 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. Cloth. Year/Pages: 1983: 884 p.; ill. and 1 errata sheet.
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$66.00
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: 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. Cloth. Year/Pages: 1981: 853 p.; ill.
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$65.00
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: This volume covers the prehistory, general history, and languages of the entire Southwest, and the cultures and histories of the Pueblo peoples. Cloth. Year/Pages: 1979: 701 p.; ill.
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$62.50
Handbook of North American Indians, V. 8: California Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: Summarizes what is known of the aboriginal culture forms and practices of about 60 California tribes. Describes the environment, prehistoric archeology, historical archeology, language classification, culture, population numbers since the time of European discovery, and the history of exploration and settlement by Whites. Cloth. Year/Pages: 1978: 816 p.; ill.
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$65.00
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Description: Provides a basic reference work on the Native languages of North America, their characteristics and uses, their historical relationships, and the history of research on these languages. Cloth. Year/Pages: 1978: 924 p.; ill.
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$67.00
Code of Federal Regulations Title 25-Indians. Bureau of Indian Affairs; Indian Arts and Crafts Board Department of the Interior; National Indian Gaming Commission; Office of Navajo and Hopi Indian Relocation and Indian Health Service; Office of the Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs; and the Office of the Special Trustee for American Indians. The contents of these volumes represent all current regulations codified under this title of the CFR as of April 1, 2010: Code of Federal Regulations, Title 25, Indians, Pt. 1-299, Revised as of April 1, 2010 Publisher: National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register Description: Paperback Year/Pages: 2010: 914 p. Price: $36.00 Code of Federal Regulations, Title 25, Indians, Pt. 300-End, Revised as of April 1, 2010 Publisher: National Archives and Records Administration, Office of the Federal Register Description: Paperback Year/Pages: 2010: 484 p. Price: $36.00 [ Top ]
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