Crafting History in the Northern Plains: A Political Economy of the Heart River Region, 1400-1750

by Mark D. Mitchell

The histories of post-1500 American Indian and First Nations societies reflect a dynamic interplay of forces. Europeans introduced new technologies, new economic systems, and new social forms, but those novelties were appropriated, resisted, modified, or ignored according to indigenous meanings, relationships, and practices that originated long before Europeans came to the Americas. A comprehensive understanding of the changes colonialism wrought...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816521298
• ISBN13: 9780816521296
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"