LCC
E78 W5 G46 1973
Description
Discusses the beliefs and culture of the Indians living between the Great Plains and the Pacific coast and examines the hostility and cruelties they confronted with the white man during a period of three centuries.
Publication
Garden City, N.Y.: Zenith Books, 1973
Notes
Discusses the beliefs and culture of the Indians living between the Great Plains and the Pacific coast and examines the hostility and cruelties they confronted with the white man during a period of three centuries.
CONTENTS: Part I: Great Painted Lady: the Southwest - Land of the sun, The Rain lovers, The Peaceful People, The Great Learners, The Raiders; Part II: Where the sun falls into the sea: California - Death in the missions, Captain Jack, Ishi Last of the Yahi; Part III: No More Forever: the Northwest: Potlatchers and Totem Poles, The Longest March.
CONTENTS: Part I: Great Painted Lady: the Southwest - Land of the sun, The Rain lovers, The Peaceful People, The Great Learners, The Raiders; Part II: Where the sun falls into the sea: California - Death in the missions, Captain Jack, Ishi Last of the Yahi; Part III: No More Forever: the Northwest: Potlatchers and Totem Poles, The Longest March.
Series
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