"Essay on the sources": pages 167-175. Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 177-238).

Examines the American Indian's struggle to preserve his self-identity and views his legal status throughout U.S. history.

Examines why, despite Native American helpfulness toward European settlers in the New World, conflicts between white men & red erupted almost immediately, & spread to all parts of America. Here are the implacable foes, the devastation they wrought, the land for which they fought, and the causes and effects of these wars.

Publisher description: The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas, Volume II: Mesoamerica (Part One), gives a comprehensive and authoritative overview of all the important native civilizations of the Mesoamerican area, beginning with archaeological discussions of paleoindian, archaic and preclassic societies and continuing to the present. Fully illustrated and engagingly written, the book is divided into sections that discuss the...