Native Americans : An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Peoples [2 Volumes]

The history, culture, and present state of Native America is revealed, explored, and explained in this, the most comprehensive reference work on the indigenous peoples of North America ever assembled. Anyone and everyone interested in Native Americans will find Native Americans indispensable. Systematically presenting historical and modern data for all known Native American groups in Canada and the United States, the different groups are listed alphabetically within 10 culture areas. The volumes are richly illustrated and include photos and drawings, culture area and tribal location maps, a master bibliography, bibliographic citations for each tribal entry, a glossary, and a subject index. This landmark two volume source ranks as one of the field's most comprehensive guides to Native American studies, offering historical, cultural, and modern reference, supporting a complete range of research.The history, culture, and present state of Native America is revealed, explored, and explained in this, the most comprehensive reference work on the indigenous peoples of North America ever assembled. Anyone and everyone interested in Native Americans will find Native Americans indispensable. Systematically presenting historical and modern data for all known Native American groups in Canada and the United States, the different groups are listed alphabetically within 10 culture areas.The volumes are richly illustrated and include photos and drawings, culture area and tribal location maps, a master bibliography, bibliographic citations for each tribal entry, a glossary, and a subject index.

What is Wicca? Is it witchcraft, Paganism, occultism, esotericism, magic, spirituality, mysticism, nature religion, secrecy, gnosis, the exotic or 'other'? Wicca has been defined by and explored within all these contexts over the past thirty years by anthropologists, sociologists and historians, but there has been a tendency to sublimate and negate the role of Christianity in Wicca's historical and contemporary contexts.

Joanne Pearson 'prowls the borderlands of Christianity' to uncover the untold history of Wicca. Exploring the problematic nature of the Wiccan claim of marginality, it contains a groundbreaking analysis of themes in Christian traditions that are inherent in the development of contemporary Wicca. These focus on the accusations which have been levelled against Catholisicm, heterodoxy and witchcraft throughout history: ritual, deviant sexuality and magic.

More than 200 native tribes of North America are profiled in this readable and culturally sensitive encyclopedia. Within broad regional sections, each with its own introduction, alphabetically arranged entries on native tribes are broken into manageable units including:-- General information-- Historical information-- Comtemporary information Preliminaries 1 Contents 7 Preface 9 Introduction 11 Chapter One 19 Chapter Two 165 Chapter Three 239 Chapter Four 323 Chapter Five 367 Chapter Seven 544 Chapter Eight 602 Chapter Nine 714 Chapter Ten 770 Glossary 824 Bibliography 830 Illustration Credits 860 About the Author 864 Index 866 The history, culture, and present state of Native America are explored in this reference work on the indigenous peoples of North America. It systematically presents historical and modern data for all known Native American groups in Canada and the United States Contains essays that provide historical and contemporary data on over two hundred Native American groups in Canada and the United States, listed alphabetically within ten culture groups; and includes illustrations, maps, a bibliography, glossary, and an index v. 1. Southwest - California - Northwest Coast - Great Basin - Plateau v. 2. Great Plains - Southeast - Northeast Woodlands - Subarctic - Arctic. Pearson uncovers the untold history of Wicca and analyzesathe role of Christianity in its development." Pearson uncovers the untold history of Wicca and analyzes the role of Christianity in its development.