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AMERICA 1492AMERICA 1492RELATED TITLES & PRODUCTS

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  • The First Americans
  • The Sea People of the Pacific Northwest
  • The Desert Dwellers of the Southwest
  • The Farmers of the Plains
  • The U.S. Wildlife Population in 1492
  • The People of the Forest
  • The Town Builders of the Southeast
  • Clues to the Past
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"The very first Americans were big-game hunters. They came from Asia and carried spears of bone and stone. They weren't searching for a new place to live. They were following the animals they hunted for a living. They stalked giant buffalo and huge woolly mammoths. In North America they found beavers as big as bears. But no jets roared through the skies, and no car horns honked. There were no towns. . . "
RELATED TITLES & PRODUCTS
NATIVE AMERICANATIVE AMERICA
"Long ago, America was their land. For thousands of years, the only inhabitants of the continent were Native Americans. They were descendants of Asians who crossed a land bridge to the northernmost part of America and eventually spread south. Then, beginning in 1492, Europeans arrived in America. Over the centuries, as a result of wars, policies, and diseases introduced by the newcomers, the Native. . . "
SOUTHWEST PEOPLESSOUTHWEST PEOPLES
"With flat-topped mesas, steep canyons, towering buttes (be-yoots), and scorching deserts, the American Southwest is spectacular to behold. But the land also provides enormous challenges to people living there. For many years, though, Native Americans of the Southwest have lived in harmony with the land. They cherish it and use its resources wisely. Over thousands of years, these people evolved from. . . "
PLAINS INDIANSPLAINS INDIANS
"Imagine a time before cities, railroads, highways, and automobiles. Imagine a time when the vast grasslands of America's Great Plains rolled on for thousands of miles with nothing to disturb them but the hooves of buffalo, deer, antelope, and elk. Onto the Great Plains, thousands of years ago, walked small bands of hunters. Over time, their numbers grew. Different groups developed into different. . . "
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ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
CHILDREN'S BOOKS
  • America in 1492 : The World of the Indian Peoples Before the Arrival of Columbus by Alvin M. Josephy, Vintage, 1993.
  • First Peoples: A Documentary Survey of American Indian History. By Colin G. Calloway, Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003.
  • The Makah. By Sharlene Nelson, Franklin Watts, 2004.
ADULT BOOKS
  • The Great Encounter: Native Peoples and European Settlers in the Americas, 1492-1800. By Jayme A. Sokolow, M.E. Sharpe, 2002.
  • The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness America: Over 350 Eyewitness Accounts of American History in the Making, 1492-2002. By Jon E. Lewis, Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003.
  • The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Northeast. By Kathleen J. Bragdon, Columbia University Press, 2002.
WEBSITES
  • Library of Congress: An Introduction to 1492: www.loc.gov/exhibits/1492/
  • Colonial America from 1492: www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/colonial
COMMUNITY RESOURCES
  • Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (DC):
    http://www.nmai.si.edu/