A Cultural Geography Of North American Indians

This book focuses on the effects of interaction between Indian and non-Indian peoples and on the complex relationships between Indians and their environments. It presents information for an accurate assessment of whether North American Indians can survive as a distinct culture. .

Ross, Thomas E.

Preface -- Introduction -- Indians in North America -- North American Indians in Historical Perspective -- Historical Geography and American Indian Development -- Two Worlds Collide: The European Advance into North America -- Spatial Awareness and Organization of the Land -- Sharing the Land: A Study in American Indian Territoriality -- Indian Delimitations of Primary Biogeographic Regions -- Land Ownership and Economic Development -- Indian Land in Southern Alberta -- The Loss of Indian Lands in Wisconsin, Montana and Arizona -- The Loss of Lands Inside Indian Reservations -- The Choctaw: Self Determination and Socioeconomic Development -- Migration, Cultural Change and Fusion -- The Iroquois Return to their Homeland: Military Retreat or Cultural Adjustment -- Women in Indian Removal: Stresses of Emigration -- Cultural Change and the Houma Indians: A Historical and Ecological Examination -- Cultural Fusion in Native-American Architecture: The Navajo Hogan -- Population Studies -- The Urban American Indian -- Early Twentieth Century Hopi Population -- The Lumbees: Population Growth of a Non-Reservation Indian Tribe -- Conclusions -- American Indian Problems and Prospects -- American Indian Population Living on and off Reservations by States: 1980