The Native North American Almanac A Reference Work on Native North Americans in the United States and Canada

Champagne, Duane Edited By

ISBN 10: 0810388650 / ISBN 13: 9780810388659

Published by Gale Research Inc., Detroit / Washington, D.C. / London, 1994

About this Item

Call numbers on small label on spine which is covered with clear protecting tape, corners slightly rubbed right at tips, bar code on front cover, library name stamp and withdrawn stamp on front endpaper, library name stamp on top page edges, reference stamped on rear pastedown. Glossy pictorial boards. (I talked to Gale Research and the volume numbers have been dropped, this book can be used alone or as part of a set (with 2 Bios, Chronology, Lit., Voices). 1275 pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Native North American Almanac A Reference Work on Native North Americans in the United States and Canada
• Publisher: Gale Research Inc., Detroit / Washington, D.C. / London
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810388650
• ISBN 13: 9780810388659
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: Ex-Library
• Seller catalogs:
  • Reference and Books About Books

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Synopsis

Provides a chronology of Native North American history from 1500 to 1992, offers maps of current reservations, discusses historic and current topics, and lists organizations, art markets, and native-owned businesses

Reviews

Editor Champagne, the director of UCLA's American Indian Studies Center, was aided by a staff of over 70 specialist editors and contributing authors in compiling this almanac. The Almanac's 17 chapters cover such topics as culture areas, religion, arts, health, education, economy, languages, and legislation, plus a chronology from 11,000 B.C. through the early 1990s and biographies of prominent Native North Americans. The latter part of each chapter covers Canadian aboriginals. As such, it is broader in scope than other recent publications, e.g., Barry Klein's Reference Encyclopedia of the American Indian (LJ 1/93) or Arlene Hirschfelder's Native American Almanac (LJ 11/1/93); Hirschfelder's almanac covers many of the same topics as this one but more briefly and in a less scholarly style. Numerous photos depict a wide variety of American Indian activities, with charts, maps, listings by state, and subtopical bibliographies rounding out each chapter. A glossary, general bibliography, and 35-page index further aid the reader. Recommended as a general source for ready reference answers and as an authoritative overview on the topics.
Stanley P. Hodge, Ball State Univ. Lib., Muncie, Ind.
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