Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 2

This volume provides a basic reference work on Indians and Arctic peoples as a continuing element in a changing and sometimes difficult environment responding to the social forces around them, making such accommodations as circumstances require, but remaining identifiably Indian in a contemporary society.Garrick A. Bailey is a professor of anthropology at the University of Tulsa, with primary interest in globalization, ethnic identity, ethnic conflict, socio-cultural adaption, economic change, material culture, art, and ethnohistory.Part of the acclaimed encyclopedia of native North American peoples, the book has 46 chapters on maintaining Native identity in contemporary societies.