Native American Studies Collections

Basic Readings on 500 Years of Contact

Axtell, J. After Columbus: Essays in the Ethnohistory of Colonial North America. Cambridge, 1988. E93.A954.
Chiappelli, F., ed. First Images of America: The Impact of the New World on the Old. UC Press, 1975. E101.F53.
Crosby, A. The Columbian Exchange: Biological & Cultural Consequences of 1492. Greenwood Press, 1972. E98.D6.C7.
Crosby, A. Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe: 900-1900. Cambridge, 1986. GF50.C76.
Jennings, F. The Invasion of America: Indians, Colonialism & the Cant of Progress. U of N. Carolina Press, 1975. F7.J46.
John, E. Storms Brewed in Other Men's Worlds: The Confrontation of Indians, Spanish & French in the Southwest. U of Texas, 1975.E78.S7.J64.
Spicer, E. Cycles of Conquest: The Impact of Spain, Mexico & the United States on the Indians of the Southwest 1553- 1960. U of Arizona Press, 1962. 970.4.S754.
Thomas, D., ed. Columbian Consequences. 3 vols. Smithsonian, 1989-1991. F799.C66.
Viola, H. After Columbus: The Smithsonian Chronicle of the North American Indians. Smithsonian, 1990. E77.V66.
Viola, H. and C. Margolis, editors. Seeds of Change: A Quincentennial Commemoration. Smithsonian, 1991. E112.S45.
Washburn, W. Indian-White Relations. (1988). Vol.4 of Handbook of North American Indians. E77.H2.5
Weatherford, J. Indian Givers: How the Indians of America Transformed the World. Crown, 1988. E59.I53.W43.
Weatherford, J. Native Roots: How the Indians Enriched America. Crown, 1991. E77.W418.

Cook, S. The Population of the California Indians: 1769-1970. UC Press, 1976. E78.C15.C698.
Deloria, V. Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties. U. of Texas Press, 1988. Law ER ADI ZRb.
Denevan, W., ed. Native Population of the Americas in 1492. U of Wis. Pr., 1976. E59.D75.N37.
Dobyns, H. Native Am. Historical Demography. U of Indiana, 1976. Z1209.D58 REF.
Dobyns, H. Their Number become Thinned. U of Tenn. Press, 1983. E98.P76.D6.
Gibson, C. Aztecs Under Spanish Rule. Stanford, 1964. 972.02.G448.
Heizer, R. The Natural World of the California Indians. UC Press, 1980. E78.C15.H433.
Hoxie, F., editor. Indians in American History: An Introduction. The Newberry Library, 1988. E76.8.I57. Excellent survey.
Hughes, J. American Indian Ecology. Texas Western Press, 1983. E98.P5.H83.
Mander, J. In the Abscence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Rise of the Indian Nations. Sierra Club, 1991. E98.S67.M36.
Margolin, M. The Ohlone Way: Indian Life in the San Francisco-Monterey Bay Area. Heydey Books, 1978. E99.C8744.M34.
Matthiessen, P. Indian Country. Viking, 1984. E98.R3.M33.
Ramenotsky, A. Vectors of Death: The Archaeology of European Contact. U. of New Mexico Press, 1987. E98.P76.R36.
Snipp, C. American Indians: The First of This Land. Sage, 1989. E98.C3.S65.

Foster, N. & L. Cordell, editors. Chilies to Chocolates: Native American Farmers, Old World Voyagers, and the Food on Your Plate. U. of Arizona, 1992. SB176.A48.C45.
Nabhan, G. Enduring Seeds: Native American Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation. North Point Press, 1989. S604.6.N23.
Schultes, R. The Healing Forest. Dioscorides, 1990. QK99.A47.S38.
Sokolov, R. Why We Eat What We Eat.... Summit Books, 1991. TX631.S65.

Clark, l. They Sang For Horses: The Impact of the Horse on Navajo and Apache Folklore. U. of Arizona Press, 1966. E78.S7.C55.
Evers, j. The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture. Smithsonian, 1955. E78.S7.C55.
Secoy. F. Changing Military Patterns on the Great Plains. Monograph 21. American Ethnological Society, 1953. 572.06.A51m v.21. Comprehensive treatment of NA behavioral changes stemming from adoption of Spanish Horses and French-British trade muskets.

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