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[ 1 ] Handbook of North American Indians, V. 8: California (Relevance: 1000)
Description: William C. Sturtevant, general editor; Robert F. Heizer, volume editor. Summarizes what is known of the aboriginal culture forms and practices of about 60 California tribes. Describes the environment, prehistoric archeology, historical archeology, language classification, culture, population numbers since the time of European discovery, and the history of exploration and settlement by Whites. Contains copyright material. L.C. card 77-17162. Item 909-D-1.
Year/pages: 1978: 816 p.; ill.
Price: $62.00
[ 2 ] Handbook of North American Indians, V. 15, Northeast (Relevance: 1000)
Description: William C. Sturtevant, general editor; Bruce G. Trigger, volume editor. Contains copyright material. L.C. card 77-17162. Item 909-D-1.
Year/pages: 1978: 924 p.; ill.
Price: $64.00
[ 3 ] Handbook of North American Indians, V. 9, Southwest (Relevance: 1000)
Description: William C. Sturtevant, general editor; Alfonso Ortiz, volume editor. Volume covers the prehistory, general history, and languages of the entire Southwest, and the cultures and histories of the Pueblo peoples. Contains copyright material. L.C. card 77-17162. Item 909-D-1.
Year/pages: 1979: 701 p.; ill.
Price: $59.50
[ 4 ] Handbook of North American Indians, V. 6, Subarctic (Relevance: 1000)
Description: William C. Sturtevant, general editor; June Helm, volume editor. Describes the prehistory, history, and cultures of the aboriginal people of North America who lived in the Subarctic culture area, defined as extending from the coast of Labrador on the Atlantic Ocean to Cook Inlet and beyond on the Pacific. Includes copyright material. L.C. card 77-17162. Item 909-D-1.
Year/pages: 1981: 853 p.; ill.
[ 5 ] Handbook of North American Indians: V. 10, Southwest (Relevance: 1000)
Description: Includes 1 p. errata sheet. William C. Sturtevant, general editor; Alfonso Ortiz, volume editor. Volume covers the cultures, histories, and languages of the non-pueblo, or Circum-Pueblo, people of the Southwest and those on the northern fringe of Mesoamerica. Contains copyright material. L.C. card 77-17162. Item 909-D-1.
Year/pages: 1983: 884 p.; ill. and 1 errata sheet.
Price: $63.00
[ 6 ] Handbook of North American Indians, V. 5, Arctic (Relevance: 1000)
Description: William C. Sturtevant, general editor; David Damas, volume editor. Describes the prehistory, history, and cultures of Eskimo people of North America who lived in the Arctic area. Contains copyright material. L.C. card 77-17162. Item 909-D-1.
Year/pages: 1984: 845 p.; ill.
[ 7 ] Handbook of North American Indians, V. 11, Great Basin (Relevance: 1000)
Description: William C. Sturtevant, general editor; Warren L. D'Azevedo, volume editor. Volume covers the history and culture of the original inhabitants of the area which is now Nevada, Utah, western Colorado, portions of southern Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, eastern California, Arizona and New Mexico. Contains copyright material. L.C. card 77-17162.
Year/pages: 1986: 868 p.; ill.
[ 8 ] Handbook of North American Indians, V. 4: History of Indian-White Relations (Relevance: 1000)
Description: William C. Sturtevant, General Editor; Wilcomb E. Washburn, Volume Editor. Provides a basic reference work on the history of the interactions in North America between the Native American peoples and those, primarily from Europe and Africa, who arrived after 1492. Includes essays on: national policies; military situation; political relations; economic relations; religious relations; and the concept of Indians in literature, popular culture, and movies. Contains copyright material. L.C. card 77-17162. Item 909-D-1.
Year/pages: 1988: 852 p.; ill.
[ 9 ] Handbook of North American Indians, V. 7, Northwest Coast (Relevance: 1000)
Description: William C. Sturtevant, general editor; Wayne Suttles, volume editor. Provides background information on the native peoples of the Northwest Coastal environment, their languages, and early history. Also contains sections on: mythology, art, and the Indian Shaker Church. L.C. card 77-17162. Item 909-D-1.
Year/pages: 1990: 793 p.; ill.
[ 10 ] Handbook of North American Indians, V. 17, Languages (Relevance: 1000)
Description: 10th volume to be published in a planned 20 volume set. William C. Sturtevant, general editor. Ives Goddard is the editor of this volume. Provides a basic reference work on the Native languages of North America, their characteristics and uses, their historical relationships, and the history of research on these languages. Item 0909-D-01.
Year/pages: 1996: 971 p.; ill., 2 maps in pocket.
Price: $89.50
[ 11 ] Handbook of North American Indians, V. 12, Plateau (Relevance: 1000)
Description: William C. Sturtevant, General Editor; Deward E. Walker, Jr., Volume 12 Editor. 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.
Year/pages: 1998: 807 p.; ill.
Price: $67.00
[ 12 ] Handbook of North American Indians, V. 13, Plains, Pt. 1-2 (Two Books) (Relevance: 1000)
Description: William C. Sturtevant, General Editor; Raymond J. DeMallie, Volume 13 editor. Describes the prehistory, history, and culture of the aboriginal peoples who lived in the region of tall-grass prairies and short-grass high plains of North America. Note: Preface indicates mistakenly that this is the twelfth volume in a 20 volume set. 2 parts in two books, sold as a set.
Year/pages: 2001: 2 bks. (1392 p.) ill.
Price: $106.00
[ 13 ] Handbook of North American Indians, V. 14, Southeast (Relevance: 1000)
Description: William C. Sturtevant, General Editor; Raymond D. Fogelson, Volume 14 editor. Describes the prehistory, history, and culture of the aboriginal peoples who lived in the region north of the urban civilizations of central Mexico. Note: Preface indicates mistakenly that this is the Thirteenth volume in a 20 volume set.
Year/pages: 2004: 1042 p.; ill.
Price: $72.00
[ 14 ] Handbook of North American Indians, V. 2: Indians in Contemporary Society (Relevance: 1000)
Description: Garrick A. Bailey, Volume Editor, William C. Sturtevant, General Editor. This Vol. 2 is the 15th of a 20 volume set planned to give an encyclopedic summary of what is know about the prehistory, history, and cultures of the aboriginal peoples of North America north of the urban civilizations of central Mexico. This volume provides a basic reference work on Indians and Arctic peoples as a continuing element in a changing and sometimes difficult environment responding to the social forces around them, making such accommodations as circumstances require, but remaining identifiably Indian in a contemporary society.
Year/pages: 2008: 591 p.; ill.
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