This Land Was Theirs by Wendell H Oswalt
Since its original publication in 1966, This Land Was Theirs has continued to offer a different approach to the study of Native Americans living north of Mexico. Designed for undergraduate courses in Native North Americans, the emphasis was, and continues to be, on both traditional and contemporary Indian lifeways. Oswalt looks at 12 North American Indian tribes, ranging from the Netsilik hunters of the Arctic Circle to the Natchez farmers of the Mississippi; the groups represent the major culture areas and levels of socioeconomic complexity among North American Indians. The author traces each tribe's story, from aboriginal life through historical changes to its current place among the native nations, and he makes visible the connections between each group along the way. In its ninth edition, the author devotes more attention to the Navajo, the most populous tradition-oriented tribe. He has tightened the ethnohistorical text and presented it in easy-to-read tables; increased discussion of methadone use, domestic violence, and crime on reservations; and added detail on the first transcontinental railroad's impact on Western Indian life.
Wendell H. Oswalt is Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles, Oswalt earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, and received his Ph.D. from the University of Arizona. He taught at UCLA for 32 years.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195367409 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195367405 |
| Title | This Land Was Theirs |
| Author | Wendell H Oswalt |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2009-02-12 |
| Number of pages | 544 |
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