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Excerpt from The Ethnoarcheology of Crow Village, AlaskaIn Arctic and subarctic America, where the aboriginal lifeways of Indians and Eskimos frequently have endured into the present century, historical archeology rarely has been of primary interest to either the ethnographer or the archeologist. In an area such as western Green land, where there was sustained contact between Europeans and Eskimos, an exception is to be found. Northern Canadia...

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This Land Was Theirs examines the traditional and contemporary lifeways of twelve North American Indian tribes. Ranging from the Netsilik hunters who straddle the Arctic Circle to the Natchez farmers of the lower Mississippi River area, the tribes represent each culture area and various levels of socioeconomic complexity among Native Americans. Each chapter focuses on a specific group and culture area, providing students with a detailed portra...

Traditionally the Kuskokwim Eskimos of southwestern Alaska valued restraint, modesty, and deference-traits for which they adopted the English word bashful. However, since their first encounter with Western culture two hundred years ago, these people have become much less willing to defer to Westerners. Bashful No Longer-based on Russian-American Company records, writings of traders, missionaries, and explorers, newspaper accounts, and field...

Excerpt from The Ethnoarcheology of Crow Village, AlaskaIn Arctic and subarctic America, where the aboriginal lifeways of Indians and Eskimos frequently have endured into the present century, historical archeology rarely has been of primary interest to either the ethnographer or the archeologist. In an area such as western Green land, where there was sustained contact between Europeans and Eskimos, an exception is to be found. Northern Canadia...