Peruse This Land Was Theirs: A Study Of Native North Americans Narrated By Wendell H. Oswalt Format Physical Edition
was a struggle to read at times what college book isn't, but it's worth all the attention, This is a mustread if you have only learned about American history in grade school where the First Thanksgiving and the Trail of Tears have the briefest mentions for Native Peoples.
I went from total ignorance to beginning to understand the individual history of Native Peoples of North America, This book highlights their struggles in history as well as today, As textbook goes this was interesting and easy to read, Anyone wanting to know about this subject I would recommend this book, The regional approach this book takes in order to detail through a selected tribe of each region how people survived their particular environment, makes a great deal of sense.
We learn in detail the subsistence strategy each group employed, their kinship pattern and social organization, about how their shamans practiced, their origins myths and spiritual beliefs, their languages and how they are linguistically linked to other regions and even continents.
Oswalt takes us
through Arctic, SubArctic, Pacific Northwest, Southern California, the Southwest, and the East Coast, choosing representative groups to discuss culture and survival from as far back as is known to the present.
After studying this book, one has a much more comprehensive picture of Native North American life, A light study of different Native American cultures around the United States I read this for my Native American Studies class and although school books usually bore me to death this one was good.
I learned alot and didn't get to board, This Land Was Theirs examines the traditional and contemporary lifeways of twelve North American Indian tribes, Ranging from the Netsilik hunters who straddle the Arctic Circle to the Natchez farmers of the lower Mississippi River area, the tribes represent each culture area and various levels
of socioeconomic complexity among Native Americans.
Each chapter focuses on a specific group and culture area, providing students with a detailed portrait of the geographical and cultural adaptations of that region.
As he has done for previous editions, author Wendell H, Oswalt has visited virtually all of the extant groups discussed in the text to ensure an accurate and complete picture of the contemporary situation.
Updates and major changes featured in this edition include:
A new chapter on the Western Shoshonea Great Basin tribe centered in Nevadaincluding a discussion of thepartial resolution of their longstanding major land claim against the federal government
A description of how in recent years some Pentecostal church congregations among the Crow and Tlingit have rejected their Indian backgrounds
A discussion of how the discovery of vast diamond deposits in northern Canada may dramatically change the lifeway of some Chipewyan and the Netsilik
Coverage of timely issues for Native Americans, including the management of individual trust accounts by the Bureau of Indian Affairs the disposition of Kennewick Man and the U.
S. Supreme Court ruling on the Lara case in, which centered on an aspect of Indian sovereignty
A more detailed examination of Indian casinos, including typical nonIndian reactions to them
This Land Was Theirs, Eighth Edition, incorporates more thanphotographs and illustrations, and each chapteropening offers pertinent text about the subject matter covered in that chapter.
Abundant pedagogical aids include maps of each region discussed, a glossary, a pronunciation guide, and
two appendixes: a guide to the various artifact types discussed in the text and an extensive list of additional resources for learning about Native Americans.
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