Kirjahaku

“A model of excellence in the art of reference volume publishing... Every public and school library... should acquire this treasure. It will remain the standard for many years to come.” - Dr. James A. Clifton, Department of Anthropology, Western Michigan University. “This substantial reference remains one of the most elaborately illustrated books on Native Americans now in print... Highly recommended.” - Library Journal. This superb, fully illustrated reference offers the most up-to-date and essential facts on the identity, kinships, locations, populations and cultural characteristics of some 400 separately identifiable peoples native to the North American continent, both living and extinct, from the Canadian Arctic to the Rio Grande. The abundance of illustrations and photographs form an especially rich store of material describing the vast range of Native American material culture. The maps are valuable pictorial representations of major historical events. Population and settlement trends based on the most recent US Census paint detailed portraits of all officially recognized tribes. The book includes: More than 680 colour and archival photographs; Extensive visual coverage of tribal dress and cultural artifacts; 46 maps, including prehistoric cultural and historic sites and tribe distribution maps, as well as maps showing movement of tribes and non-indigenous troops during conflicts; More than 100 specially commissioned colour illustrations. Comprehensive, authoritative and up-to-date, Encyclopedia of Native Tribes of North America is an important and accessible record of the Native American peoples and an essential addition to all school and library collections.

In this handsome book, Michael G. Johnson, the author of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Native American Tribes and its companion, Arts and Crafts of the North American Tribes, looks at the people of the Iroquois Confederacy. The tribes were the Mohawk, Oneida, Cayuga, Onondaga, Seneca, and - admitted into the Iroquois as a sixth nation by 1722 - the Tuscarora. Iroquois: People of the Longhouse details their story up to the present day, when perhaps 50,000 people of Iroquois descent still live on, or near, their reserves in Canada and the USA, with that many again living in cities.Rich with archival, contemporary and modern photographs, maps and illustrations, Iroquois: People of the Longhouse contains: * The Origins of the Iroquois Confederacy; * The Six Nations and Incorporated Tribes; * History 1500-1750; * The French and Indian War 1754-1766; * New Wars in the Old Northwest; * The American Revolution and the Aftermath; * Disintegration, Reformation and Perseverance 1783 to the Present; * Iroquois in the West; * Iroquois Social & Political Organization; * Warfare; * Food and Flora; * Religion and Rituals; * Material Culture: Longhouses, Dress, Wampum, Masks, Decorative Art, Beadwork; * Important People in Six Nations History. An Iroquois gazetteer, bibliography and list of Iroquois reserves and reservations and their populations complete this authoritative reference.

Ojibwa describes the history and culture of the people, and introduces their most important figures. It offers the most up-to-date and essential facts on identity, kinships, locations, populations and cultural characteristics. It presents extensive visual coverage of tribal dress and cultural artifacts, dozens of colour and archival photographs, specially commissioned colour illustrations, regional maps that show prehistoric cultural and historic sites, and maps showing tribe distribution and major historical events. Now and in the past, the Ojibwa challenge the Navajo and Cherokee as the largest 'tribe' north of Mexico, and taken as a whole, likely the largest before European contact. At the zenith of their expansion - about 1800 - they claimed an estate probably greater than any other native American people north of the Rio Grande, with the possible exception of the Algonkian-speaking Cree. In the United States the Ojibwa are referred to as the Chippewa, and in Canada by a variety of names depending on where they live (Ojibway, Saulteaux, Plains Cree, Bungi, Mississauga and 'Cree-Chip').Today, many Ojibwa today identify themselves as Anishinaubag (Anishinaabe), 'Original Men' in their own tongue. Today approximately one third of a million people are descendants of the numerous bands of the Ojibwa Indian peoples. Many are enrolled members of reservation agencies within the U.S. or registered as band members of First Nation reserves in Canada. Others are self-identified in the U.S. census, or in Metis communities in both the U.S. and Canada. This is one of the most comprehensive, up-to-date and useful references published in recent years. Scholarly and accessible, it is an important record of the Native American peoples and an essential purchase for schools and libraries.