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American Indian Places: A Historical Guidebook
by: Frances H. Kennedy

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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.0497
EAN: 9780395633366
ISBN: 0395633362
Label: Houghton Mifflin Co
Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Co
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: September 23, 2008
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co
Studio: Houghton Mifflin Co
Sales Rank: 341021

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This historical guidebook to American Indian places features illuminating essays and contributions from leading scholars.

It includes 366 places that are significant to American Indians and are open to the public. These include Ganondagan State Historic Site in New York, Kituhwa Mound in North Carolina, Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site in Illinois, Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa, Devils Tower National Monument in Wyoming, Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, Navajo National Monument in Arizona, La PurÃsima Mission State Historic Park in California, and Nez Perce National Historical Park in Idaho.

More than 275 authorities who know and revere these places wrote essays, including Suzan Shown Harjo, Frederick E. Hoxie, Clara Sue Kidwell, Rennard Strickland, and David Hurst Thomas. Tribal culture committees and tribal historians have also contributed essays.

Frances H. Kennedy, editor and principal contributor, wrote short entries on more than one hundred of the places. Royalties will be donated to the National Museum of the American Indian. W. Richard West Jr., the museum's founding director, is the primary adviser to American Indian Places.

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- Indispensable Guidebook to Native American Sites in the U.S.
Ok, first the standard disclaimer: I am one of the contributors of one short essay to this volume...so I won't review my own essay on Blood Run National Historic Landmark ;-) However, there are over 370 sites and essays from every region and every era of the United States in this encyclopediac volume, except for Alaska and Hawaii. The indigenous people of Hawaii are not counted as Native American; it is uncertain why the Native Americans of Alaska were not included. All the profits from this book are being donated to the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall, a part of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

The thing that strikes me is that each essay was written by a tribal member or scholar who is especially knowledgeable about, and connected to, ... Read More

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