Synopses & Reviews
This book is an in-depth historical survey of the Indians of the United States,
including the Eskimos and Aleuts of Alaska. It isolates and analyzes the problems that have beset these peoples since their first contacts with Europeans. Only in the light of this knowledge, the author states, can an intelligent Indian policy be formulated.
Review:
"A reference work and grand summary of particular and historical knowledge....Carefully and usefully presented." New York Times
Review:
"The best available survey of relations between the European intruders and
the native American from discovery to the present day." Choice
Review:
"Angie Debo is no stranger to Indian scholarship. For over thirty years she
has devoted herself — professionally and personally — to Native Americans and has emerged as an Indian historian with few peers and no masters. Now she has attempted a labor of love, a synthesis of the Indians as a factor in United States history. And she has succeeded admirably....It is pure Debo pulling together a myriad persons, policies, events, and tribes into a fine bright thread that weaves itself through four-hundred-plus years of history. Here indeed, is the best one-volume history of the American Indians....A work that will be studied and discussed as long as persons remain interested in American Indians." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
About the Author
Angie Debo received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Oklahoma.
Among her many historical works are
Geronimo: The Man, His Time, His Place (winner of the Southwestern Library Association Book Award, the Southwest Book Award, and the Western Heritage Wrangler Award),
The Rise and Fall of the Choctaw Republic, and
The Road to Disappearance: A History of the Creek Indians.
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