Meet North American Indians

by Elizabeth Payne

Hardcover, 1965

Status

Available

Call number

NA/IND

Tags

Indians of North America

Genres

Publication

Random House Books for Young Readers (1965), 84 pages

Description

A brief survey of life in five North American Indian tribes--Makah, Hopi, Creek, Penobscot, and Mandan--at the time Columbus arrived in the New World.

Media reviews

"A Critical Bibliography On North American Indians, For K-12"
This reprint of a 1965 publication describes in simple prose for young readers the peopling of America and the pre-Contact lifeways of representative tribes of the Northwest Coast, Southwest, Southeast, Plains, and Northeast. Post-Contact and modern life are not covered. The book abounds in
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 generalizations, stereotypes, and condescension. … Black, white, and orange illustrations are similarly stereotypical and tend to focus on the unusual and bizarre.
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Subjects

Indians of North America
Indians of North America Juvenile literature

Language

English

Original language

English

Original publication date

1965

Physical description

84 p.; 8.75 inches

ISBN

0394800605 / 9780394800608

Barcode

12085

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