AMERICAN INDIANS The First of this Land

Snipp, C. Matthew

ISBN 10: 0871548224 / ISBN 13: 9780871548221

Published by Russell Sage Foundation (1989), New York, NY, 1989

About this Item

New York, NY: Russell Sage Foundation. VG/G. (1989). First Edition. Cloth w/DJ. The Population of the United States in the 1980's . Sm 4to., 408 pp., Dj spine faded. foldover creased, shelfwear .

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: AMERICAN INDIANS The First of this Land
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation (1989), New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0871548224
• ISBN 13: 9780871548221
• Binding: Cloth w/DJ
• Illustrator: Charts
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: VG/G
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • HISTORY

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Synopsis

Native Americans are too few in number to swing presidential elections, affect national statistics, or attract consistent media attention. But their history illuminates our collective past and their current disadvantaged status reflects our problematic present. In American Indians: The First of This Land, C. Matthew Snipp provides an unrivaled chronicle of the position of American Indians and Alaskan Natives within the larger American society. Taking advantage of recent Census Bureau efforts to collect high-quality data for these groups, Snipp details the composition and characteristics of native Indian and Alaskan populations. His analyses of housing, family structure, language use and education, socioeconomic status, migration, and mortality are based largely on unpublished material not available in any other single source. He catalogs the remarkable diversity of a population―Eskimos, Aleuts, and numerous Indian tribes―once thought doomed to extinction but now making a dramatic comeback, exceeding 1 million for the first time in 300 years. Also striking is the pervasive influence of the federal bureaucracy on the social profile of American Indians, a profile similar at times to that of Third World populations in terms of literacy, income, and living conditions. Comparisons with black and white Americans throughout this study place its findings in perspective and confirm its stature as a benchmark volume. American Indians offers an unsurpassed overview of a minority group that is deeply embedded in American folklore, the first of this land historically but now among the last in its socioeconomic hierarchy. A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Census Series

About the Author

C. MATTHEW SNIPP is associate professor of rural sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.