New directions in American Indian history / edited by Colin G. Calloway.

"Each year more than five hundred new books appear in the field of North American Indian history. There exists, however, no means by which scholars can easily judge which are most significant, which explore new fields of inquiry and ask new questions, and which areas are the subject of especial...

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Other Authors: Calloway, Colin G. 1953-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, 1988.
Edition:First edition.
Series:D'Arcy McNickle Center bibliographies in American Indian history ; v. 1.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Recent trends: ch. 1. Indians and the numbers game: quantitative methods in Native American history / Melissa L. Meyer and Russell Thornton
  • ch. 2. American Indian women: reaching beyond the myth / Deborah Welch
  • ch. 3. Riel, Red River, and beyond: new developments in Métis history / Dennis F.K. Madill
  • ch. 4. In search of multisided frontiers: recent writing on the history of the Southern Plains / Willard Rollings
  • ch. 5. Indians and the law / George S. Grossman
  • ch. 6. Scholars and twentieth-century Indians: reassessing the recent past / James Riding In
  • pt. 2. Emerging fields: ch. 7. The importance of language study for the writing of Plains Indian history / Douglas R. Parks
  • ch. 8. The other discipline: economics and American Indian history / Ronald L. Trosper
  • ch. 9. Toward a history of Indian religion: religious changes in Native societies / Robert Brightman.