Folio Archives 360: A History of the Indians of the United States by Angie Debo 2003
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A History of the Indians of the United States by Angie Debo 2003
First published in 1970 and updated in 1983, this is a detailed history of the indigenous peoples of the area of North America now occupied by the United States (including Alaska). Debo describes the original culture of the Indians, then goes on to detail their trials and tribulations as they encountered and dealt with the invading Europeans as they spread west across the continent.
First meetings, inter-tribal rivalries, cooperation and confrontation, treaties and injustice, encroachment and dispossession, reconciliation and betrayal are all discussed in an easily readable form. Indian culture and the way it clashed with European culture, each equally foreign to the other, is explained.
There are two bound-in blocks of monochrome and colour pictures in the book, each of 16 pages. The 480 page book is introduced by Shirley A. Leckie. It is bound in dark green buckram with gold stampings and a contrasting front panel printed with a daguerreotype photograph by Edward S. Curtis. The endpapers are plain dark brown and the 26x18.4cm. slipcase a plain dark green. There are a few line drawn maps scattered through the text.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
First published in 1970 and updated in 1983, this is a detailed history of the indigenous peoples of the area of North America now occupied by the United States (including Alaska). Debo describes the original culture of the Indians, then goes on to detail their trials and tribulations as they encountered and dealt with the invading Europeans as they spread west across the continent.
First meetings, inter-tribal rivalries, cooperation and confrontation, treaties and injustice, encroachment and dispossession, reconciliation and betrayal are all discussed in an easily readable form. Indian culture and the way it clashed with European culture, each equally foreign to the other, is explained.
There are two bound-in blocks of monochrome and colour pictures in the book, each of 16 pages. The 480 page book is introduced by Shirley A. Leckie. It is bound in dark green buckram with gold stampings and a contrasting front panel printed with a daguerreotype photograph by Edward S. Curtis. The endpapers are plain dark brown and the 26x18.4cm. slipcase a plain dark green. There are a few line drawn maps scattered through the text.
An index of the other illustrated reviews in the "Folio Archives" series can be viewed here.
2jveezer
Like Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee and many other "scholarly" books of the tragic story of the U.S., this is a great book to start to understand the dark foundations of our republic. And a beautiful edition to read about ugliness in...The FS also did a matching edition of the Dee Brown book.
3EuanM
I have this Folio edition, but not the Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. IMHO, The Earth is Weeping is the best single volume on this vital topic.
4jveezer
Another great and important work is An American Genocide, which documents not only the genocide but the enslavement and unfree labor that the California Native Americans were subjected to even after the Civil War supposedly ended slavery, with full complicity of the State and Federal governments. A must read especially for those of us living in California.
But also it is vitally important to read narratives of Native American writers to fully grasp our history and present.
But also it is vitally important to read narratives of Native American writers to fully grasp our history and present.
