Native American Historical Demography
Author | : Henry F. Dobyns |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 95 |
Release | : 1976 |
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Author | : Henry F. Dobyns |
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Total Pages | : 95 |
Release | : 1976 |
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Author | : Russell Thornton |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780806122205 |
Demographic overview of North American history describing in detail the holocaust that occurred to the Indians.
Author | : William M. Denevan |
Publisher | : Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 1992-03-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0299134334 |
William M. Denevan writes that, "The discovery of America was followed by possibly the greatest demographic disaster in the history of the world." Research by some scholars provides population estimates of the pre-contact Americas to be as high as 112 million in 1492, while others estimate the population to have been as low as eight million. In any case, the native population declined to less than six million by 1650. In this collection of essays, historians, anthropologists, and geographers discuss the discrepancies in the population estimates and the evidence for the post-European decline. Woodrow Borah, Angel Rosenblat, William T. Sanders, and others touch on such topics as the Indian slave trade, diseases, military action, and the disruption of the social systems of the native peoples. Offering varying points of view, the contributors critically analyze major hemispheric and regional data and estimates for pre- and post-European contact. This revised edition features a new introduction by Denevan reviewing recent literature and providing a new hemispheric estimate of 54 million, a foreword by W. George Lovell of Queen's University, and a comprehensive updating of the already extensive bibliography. Research in this subject is accelerating, with contributions from many disciplines. The discussions and essays presented here can serve both as an overview of past estimates, conflicts, and methods and as indicators of new approaches and perspectives to this timely subject.
Author | : Carl Waldman |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
ISBN | : 1438110103 |
A comprehensive, illustrated encyclopedia which provides information on over 150 native tribes of North America, including prehistoric peoples.
Author | : Per Axelsson |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2011-08-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0857450034 |
When researchers want to study indigenous populations they are dependent upon the highly variable way in which states or territories enumerate, categorise and differentiate indigenous people. In this volume, anthropologists, historians, demographers and sociologists have come together for the first time to examine the historical and contemporary construct of indigenous people in a number of fascinating geographical contexts around the world, including Canada, the United States, Colombia, Russia, Scandinavia, the Balkans and Australia. Using historical and demographical evidence, the contributors explore the creation and validity of categories for enumerating indigenous populations, the use and misuse of ethnic markers, micro-demographic investigations, and demographic databases, and thereby show how the situation varies substantially between countries.
Author | : David P. Henige |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 556 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780806130446 |
In the past forty years an entirely new paradigm has developed regarding the contact population of the New World. Proponents of this new theory argue that the American Indian population in 1492 was ten, even twenty, times greater than previous estimates. In Numbers From Nowhere David Henige argues that the data on which these high counts are based are meager and often demonstrably wrong. Drawing on a wide variety of primary and secondary sources, Henige illustrates the use and abuse of numerical data throughout history. He shows that extrapolation of numbers is entirely subjective, however masked it may be by arithmetic, and he questions what constitutes valid evidence in historical and scientific scholarship.
Author | : Frederick E. Hoxie |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 665 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199858896 |
The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History presents the story of the indigenous peoples who lived-and live-in the territory that became the United States. It describes the major aspects of the historical change that occurred over the past 500 years with essays by leading experts, both Native and non-Native, that focus on significant moments of upheaval and change.
Author | : Oregon. Office of the Secretary of State |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Oregon |
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Author | : C. Matthew Snipp |
Publisher | : Russell Sage Foundation |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 1989-11-21 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1610445090 |
Native Americans are too few in number to swing presidential elections, affect national statistics, or attract consistent media attention. But their history illuminates our collective past and their current disadvantaged status reflects our problematic present. In American Indians: The First of This Land, C. Matthew Snipp provides an unrivaled chronicle of the position of American Indians and Alaskan Natives within the larger American society. Taking advantage of recent Census Bureau efforts to collect high-quality data for these groups, Snipp details the composition and characteristics of native Indian and Alaskan populations. His analyses of housing, family structure, language use and education, socioeconomic status, migration, and mortality are based largely on unpublished material not available in any other single source. He catalogs the remarkable diversity of a population—Eskimos, Aleuts, and numerous Indian tribes—once thought doomed to extinction but now making a dramatic comeback, exceeding 1 million for the first time in 300 years. Also striking is the pervasive influence of the federal bureaucracy on the social profile of American Indians, a profile similar at times to that of Third World populations in terms of literacy, income, and living conditions. Comparisons with black and white Americans throughout this study place its findings in perspective and confirm its stature as a benchmark volume. American Indians offers an unsurpassed overview of a minority group that is deeply embedded in American folklore, the first of this land historically but now among the last in its socioeconomic hierarchy. A Volume in the Russell Sage Foundation Census Series
Author | : Paul Stuart |
Publisher | : VNR AG |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1987-09-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780313238130 |
"As a compendium of historical statistics on native American tribes, Nations will fill a unique niche in most academic and large public libraries. . . . well-crafted, balanced, convenient tool for reference work." Reference Books Bulletin