Red Man's America

A History of Indians in the United States

Ruth Murray Underhill, Marianne Stoller

• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Year: 2018
• Print ISBN: 9780226841656, 9780226841649
• eBook ISBN: 9780226223377
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: Social Sciences

Red Man's America meets the great need for a comprehensive study of Indian societies from the first Stone Age hunters to the American citizens of today. Beginning with the first migrations of primitive man from Siberia in the Old World to Alaska in the New, probably during the latter part of the Pleistocene glaciations, and his subsequent migration southward and eastward, the author takes up in turn the tribes and cultures of the various regions of North America.

The material Professor Underhill has gathered from the fields of archaeology, ethnology, and history, together with that drawn from her own experience in the United States Indian Service, produces a fascinating narrative. Red Man's America is an important contribution to our heritage of Indian life and lore.

"A work for which both sociologist and historian will be forever grateful. The author has combined a long period of study with actual field work in the service of the Indian to produce a work that gives a brief, but well written and accurate, sketch of the origins, backgrounds, and customs of the various North American tribes. . . . There is no other modern single volume that contains as much information on the subject."—E.R. Vollmar, The Historical Bulletin

"Liveliness in style and illustration, together with perspicacity in content, makes this book a useful introduction to the civilization of the original inhabitants of the land."—Pacific Historical Review

Table of contents

• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• I. The Red Man Discovers America: The First Migrations and the Peopling of the Two Continents
• II. America Blooms: The Earliest Corn-growers and the High Cultures of Nuclear America
• III. Civilized Tribes: The Five Important Tribes of the Southeast Who Were Later Moved to Oklahoma
• IV. Encirclement: Pressure of Whites in the Southeast and Removal of Indians
• V. They Have Gone: Algonkian Tribes of the Atlantic Seaboard
• VI. A Woodland League of Nations: The Five Tribes of the Iroquois
• VII. People of the Calumet: Tribes of the Great Lakes and Upper Mississippi
• VIII. The New Rich of the Plains: Early Residents of the Buffalo Country and Others Who Moved in with the Coming of the Horse
• IX. The Peaceful Corn-growers: Southwestern Agriculturists: The Mogollon, Hohokam, Pueblo, and Pimans
• X. Late Arrivals: The Navaho and Apache
• XI. Those Who Had Little To Lose: Tribes of the Great Basin and the Plateau
• XII. West Coast Medley: Indians of California
• XIII. The Potlatch-givers: Tribes of the Pacific Northwest from Northern California to the Canadian Border
• XIV. Protective Uncle: Measures Taken by the Government on the Indian's Behalf
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index