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Book

The fascinating history of American Indians : the age before Columbus

Call Number

  • *J 970.00497 MCNE (CEN)

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Publication Information

Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2009.

Physical Description

128 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps ; 24 cm.

Summary

"Examines the history of American Indians before the arrival of Christopher Columbus and other European explorers to North America"--Provided by publisher.

Contents

  • An ancient hunter
  • America's first people
  • Finding ways to survive
  • People of the Southwest
  • The mound builders and the Iroquois
  • Hunting on the Great Plains
  • American Indians in the West
  • Winds of change.

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