The Tried and the True: Native American Women Confronting Colonization

Demos, John

ISBN 10: 0195123999 / ISBN 13: 9780195123999

Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Tried and the True: Native American Women Confronting Colonization
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0195123999
• ISBN-13: 9780195123999
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket
• Gewicht: 0,6 Pfund

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The first of the women we now call Native American were among the prehistoric nomads who crossed the land bridge between Asia and North America 20,000 years ago. Over centuries, these nomads formed larger groups, and eventually farming villages, the seeds of the many tribes and nations of Native Americans.
In this volume John Demos looks at four Native American groups--the Puebloans of the North American Southwest, the Iroquois of the Northeast woodlands, the fur trading tribes of the central Great Lakes region, and the Cherokees of the interior Southeast. In the common view of early white (and usually male) observers, Native American women lived lives of drudgery, while men hunted and engaged in warfare. Demos offers a different view as he explores the life experiences of Native American women, their culture, and the ways that contacts between Native Americans and white Europeans forever changed their lives.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Demos is the Samuel Knight Professor of American History at Yale University. He is the author of several classic volumes of colonial history, includingThe Unredeemed Captive: A Family Story from Early America, which was nominated for the 1994 National Book Award.