Another America: Native American Maps and the History of Our Land by Warhus,

Description: About this productProduct InformationThe Europeans who conquered the Americas and their descendants were not the first to map the hemisphere, museum curator Mark Warhus writes in this fascinating, richly illustrated study of Native American cartography. Indian maps--made on buffalo skins, rocks, bark, and, later, paper--claimed territorial rights, explained treaties among nations, delineated trade routes, and showed the locations of resources. Many of those maps wound up in dusty attics and the back shelves of museums, where Warhus has hunted them out; his stories of finding these lost treasures are as illuminating as his interpretations of what might be called pre-scientific ways of graphically describing the land. These maps, he writes, are of importance today not only for their own sake, but also as evidence of historic holdings in current claims over lost territories.Product IdentifiersPublisherSt. Martin's PressISBN-100312187025ISBN-139780312187026eBay Product ID (ePID)362652Product Key FeaturesBook TitleAnother AmericaAuthorMark WarlusFormatTrade PaperbackLanguageEnglishTopicSociology / General, General, North America, Native AmericanPublication Year1998GenreHistory, Social ScienceNumber of Pages256 PagesDimensionsItem Length9.1in.Item Height0.4in.Item Width7.6in.Item Weight17.8 OzAdditional Product FeaturesCopyright Date1998Dewey Decimal912.7/3/08997Dewey Edition21IllustratedYes

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