First Peoples, First Contacts by King

First Peoples, First Contacts by King

From the Big-Game Hunters who appeared on the continent as far back as 12,000 years ago to the Inuits plying the Alaskan waters today, the Native peoples of North America produced a culture remarkable for its vibrancy, breadth, and diversity--and for its survival in the face of almost inconceivable trials. This book is at once a history of that culture and a celebration of its splendid variety. Rich in historical testimony and anecdotes and lavishly illustrated, it weaves a magnificent tapestry of Native American life reaching back to the earliest human records.

A recognized expert in North American studies, Jonathan King interweaves his account with Native histories, from the arrival of the first Native Americans by way of what is now Alaska to their later encounters with Europeans on the continent's opposite coast, from their exchanges with fur traders to their confrontations with settlers and an ever more voracious American government. To illustrate this history, King draws on the extensive collections of the British Museum--artwork, clothing, tools, and artifacts that demonstrate the wealth of ancient traditions as well as the vitality of contemporary Native culture. These illustrations, all described in detail, form a pictorial document of relations between Europeans and Native American peoples--peoples as profoundly different and as deeply related as the Algonquians and the Iroquois, the Chumash of California and the Inuipat of Alaska, the Cree and the Cherokee--from their first contact to their complicated coexistence today.

J. C. H. King is keeper at the Department of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas at the British Museum. His books include Imaging the Arctic, Provenance: Twelve Collectors of Ethnographic Art in England, 1760-1990, and Ralph T. Coe and the Collecting of American Indian Art. Christian F. Feest is director of the Museum fur Volkerkunde in Vienna. His books include The Culture of Native North Americans, Native Arts of North America, and Indians and Europe: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays (Nebraska 1999). Contributors include: George Bankes, Jack Campisi, Christian F. Feest, Dale Idiens, Simon Jones, Sylvia S. Kasprycki, J. C. H. King, Shepard Krech III, Scott Meachum, Trudy Nicks, Cath Oberholtzer, Laura Peers, David W. Penney, Ruth Phillips, Jolene Rickard, Doris I. Stambrau, R. S. Stephenson, and William C. Sturtevant.

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ISBN 13	9780674626546
ISBN 10	0674626540
Title	First Peoples, First Contacts
Author	King
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Publisher	Harvard University Press
Year published	1999-07-30
Number of pages	288
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