Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 12 - Plateau

Informationen zum Autor Deward E. Walker, Jr. is a professor in the departments of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He specializes in applied anthropology, demography, and ethnohistory. Klappentext Provides a summary of what is known about the prehistory, history, and culture of the American Indians of the Plateau Culture area. This area is defined by the region in northwestern United States and southwestern Canada drained by the Columbia and Fraser rivers excepting certain portions of the northern Great Basin drained by the Snake River. The Plateau culture area includes the Interior Salishan peoples, the Sahaptian peoples, and several cultural isolates, Athapaskan outliers, and the Kootenai and Cayuse. Zusammenfassung Provides a summary of what is known about the prehistory! history! and culture of the American Indians of the Plateau Culture area. This area is defined by the region in northwestern United States and southwestern Canada drained by the Columbia and Fraser rivers excepting certain portions of the northern Great Basin drained by the Snake River. The Plateau culture area includes the Interior Salishan peoples! the Sahaptian peoples! and several cultural isolates! Athapaskan outliers! and the Kootenai and Cayuse.

Product details

• Authors: William C Sturtevant, William C. Sturtevant, Deward E Walker, Deward E. Walker, Deward E. Jr Walker
• Assisted by: William C. Sturtevant (Editor), Deward E. Walker (Editor)
• Publisher: Smithsonian books
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 10 to 11
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.06.1998
• EAN: 9780160495144
• ISBN: 978-0-16-049514-4
• No. of pages: 808
• Dimensions: 234 mm x 295 mm x 56 mm
• Series: Handbook of North American Indians; Handbook of North American Ind; Handbook of North American Indians
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History