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When Europeans first found its way to North America, between five and eight million indigenous individuals were already living on the continent. But how do they come to be there? What were their agricultural, spiritual, and hunting practices? How do their societies develop, and what obstacles do they face today? Eminent historians Theda Perdue and Michael Green start by describing how nomadic rings of hunter-gatherers followed the bison and woolly mammoth in the Bering land mass between Asia and what's now Alaska between 25,000 and 15,000 years ago, settling throughout North America. They express hunting practices among different tribes, how some made the gradual transition to more settled, agricultural means of life, the role of kinship and co-operation in Local societies, their diverse burial rites and spiritual practices, and a great many other features of Local American life. Throughout the e book, Perdue and Green stress the fantastic variety of indigenous peoples in America, who spoke more than 400 different dialects before the introduction of Europeans and whose means of life varied in line with the environments they settled in and modified to so effectively. Most important, the creators stress how Local Americans have struggled to keep up their sovereignty - first with Western european forces and then with the United States - in order to keep their lands, govern themselves, support their people, and pursue practices that have made their lives important. Heading beyond the stereotypes that frequently distort our views of Local Americans, this Very Short Introduction offers a historically exact, deeply engaging, and often inspiring account of the variety of Native peoples in America.

Category: Native American Studies