description: "Illuminating chapters on Indian art, dances, religion, law...the minds of the whites in their encounters with the Redmen" ( from the DJ) Chapters include -Ice tells the time --Flint and fire --Flesh and bone --And strange tongues --A cast of characters --The noble grass --Of law systems --The tool that shapes itself --The inner world --The curtain rises --The golden myth --The world in flux --Systematizating the conquest --The politics of trade --The royal will and pleasure --Colonialism ends --Nationalism begins --Basic tenets --The law giver --Frontier swallows the law --Beyond the great river --Westward the course --Solution by law --Growth from the severed stump.
language: English
title: They came here first: The epic of the American Indian
titlecomplete: They came here first: The epic of the American Indian (Perennial library)
ratings_count: 11
publisher: Harper & Row