North America. From Bluefish to Sitting Bull, 25,000 BC - 19th Century.
Belin| N° d'inventaire | 26140 |
| Format | 17 x 24 |
| Détails | 396 p., numerous color illustrations, paperback with flaps. |
| Publication | Paris, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782410015867 |
Collection: "Ancient Worlds", under the direction of Joël CORNETTE.
From around 25,000 BC to the "Scramble West" and the Indian Wars of the 19th century, Jean-Michel Sallmann shows how hundreds of Indian nations, with extremely diverse languages, customs, and beliefs, inhabited an immense territory, stretching from New Mexico to Siberia, passing through the Great Plains and the Mississippi Valley. Very quickly, small family bands of hunter-gatherers spread out and adapted, whatever the difficulties due to the climate or the terrain.
While some populations continued the nomadic lifestyle, others settled down with the beginnings of agriculture and built villages. From the end of the first millennium BC, trade also became more intense, even over long distances, leading to suspicions of relations on both sides of the Pacific and, around the year 1000, the first contacts with Europeans via Greenland.
The arrival of Spanish, French, and English settlers in the 16th century, however, disrupted the lives of the people of America. While a form of collaboration was established in some places, notably between the Northern Indians and the coureurs des bois, the armed resistance of the Indians—embodied, among others, by Big Bear, Geronimo, and Sitting Bull—was immediately tenacious. Often reduced to servitude, driven from their lands, forcibly acculturated, or even victims of epidemics, the tribes ultimately experienced a considerable demographic decline, if not entirely disappearing.
Using archaeology, particularly experimental archaeology, combined with all the life and earth sciences related to it, and an international bibliography, the author traces more than 25,000 years of Amerindian history, illustrated with around a hundred iconographic documents and around twenty unpublished maps.
Collection: "Ancient Worlds", under the direction of Joël CORNETTE.
From around 25,000 BC to the "Scramble West" and the Indian Wars of the 19th century, Jean-Michel Sallmann shows how hundreds of Indian nations, with extremely diverse languages, customs, and beliefs, inhabited an immense territory, stretching from New Mexico to Siberia, passing through the Great Plains and the Mississippi Valley. Very quickly, small family bands of hunter-gatherers spread out and adapted, whatever the difficulties due to the climate or the terrain.
While some populations continued the nomadic lifestyle, others settled down with the beginnings of agriculture and built villages. From the end of the first millennium BC, trade also became more intense, even over long distances, leading to suspicions of relations on both sides of the Pacific and, around the year 1000, the first contacts with Europeans via Greenland.
The arrival of Spanish, French, and English settlers in the 16th century, however, disrupted the lives of the people of America. While a form of collaboration was established in some places, notably between the Northern Indians and the coureurs des bois, the armed resistance of the Indians—embodied, among others, by Big Bear, Geronimo, and Sitting Bull—was immediately tenacious. Often reduced to servitude, driven from their lands, forcibly acculturated, or even victims of epidemics, the tribes ultimately experienced a considerable demographic decline, if not entirely disappearing.
Using archaeology, particularly experimental archaeology, combined with all the life and earth sciences related to it, and an international bibliography, the author traces more than 25,000 years of Amerindian history, illustrated with around a hundred iconographic documents and around twenty unpublished maps.