Great Events from History: Native American History

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Great Events from History: Native American History is a welcome addition to the long-running Great Events series by Salem Press. This brand-new three-volume work includes nearly 600 essays on the history of Native Americans, starting with a comprehensive overview of the many cultures and communities that exist, moving through major transformative events that reshaped North America as we know it and the place of Indigenous peoples in it, before concluding with a look at treaties, acts, court cases, and prominent organizations that define modern Native American life.

Native American history encompasses countless stories, told in dozens of language families, enacted across ecosystems ranging from Arctic tundra to desert plateau, and shaped by millennia of cultural development. This three-volume reference set brings those stories together across three complementary dimensions: the peoples and places that form the foundation of Indigenous life in North America (Volume

1); the transformative events that have tested, altered, and sometimes devastated Native communities across the centuries (Volume 2); and the legal and political documents, court decisions, and institutions through which Indigenous nations have both been constrained and have asserted their rights (Volume 3). Together, the three volumes offer a comprehensive framework for understanding Native American history: not as a relic of the past, but as an evolving reality

 Essays fall under 14 sub-categories which include:

• Culture Areas of North America
• Communities & Cultures: An Overview
• Pre-Columbian
• 16^th to 17^th Century
• 18^th Century
• 1800-1849
• 1850-1899
• 1900-1949
• 1950-2000s and Beyond
• Ongoing Modern Issues
• Treaties
• Acts and Policies
• Court Decisions
• Organizations

 SPECIAL FEATURES

These three volumes include hundreds of images, including historical paintings, portraits, maps, photographs, and more. The back matter in Volume 3 contains a number of reference tools to help readers further explore human rights history:

• Alphabetical Index provides an A-to-Z list of each entry included in the book, from Abenaki to Zapotec;
• Category Index organizes entries under specific headings, from Agriculture to Wars, Uprisings, and Civil Unrest;
• Chronological Index provides an easy-to-follow timeline of the events contained herein, from c.
• 18,000 BCE to the 2020s;
• Geographical Index provides access to the individual essays by country, region, and other locale;
• Key Figures provides an alphabetical list of the notable people involved in each essay; and
• Subject Index offers a range of entry points into the individual essays.

Free Online with Print Purchase.

In addition, Great Events from History: Native American History comes with complimentary online access via https://online.salempress.com. A single purchase of the printed version is all it takes to gain access to this important title online.

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