The Tried and the True: Native American Women Confronting Colonization

by John Putnam Demos

Book Overview

The first of the women we now call Native American were among the prehistoric nomads who crossed a land bridge between Asia and North America 40,000 years ago. Over centuries, these humans formed larger bands, and eventually farming villages and even larger units, the seeds of the many tribes and nations that we call Indians or Native Americans.
In most of these cultures, women held positions of honor in the community. John Demos looks at four...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195081420
• ISBN13: 9780195081428
• Release Date: June 1995
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.8" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12