North American Indians in Historical Perspective

by Eleanor Burke Leacock (editor), Nancy Oestreich Lurie (editor)

This collection of essays by international scholars focuses on and clearly defines Indian cultural reintegration. The anthology concentrates on recent Indian history and the constantly emerging ways that Native Americans deal with, and adapt to, new circumstances. The essays show that the cliche vanishing Americans can no longer be applied; rather, Indians may more accurately be described as experiencing a cultural renaissance.

Genres: History, Anthropology

498 pages, Paperback

First published January 28, 1971

About the author

Eleanor Leacock was a unique individual whose political life spanned both academics and the world of struggle. She was an anthropologist who was also a Communist Party sympathizer, blacklisted from tenured faculty positions for a number of years until she was finally hired full-time in the City University of New York system in 1972. Leacock always saw her extensive theoretical writing as work in the service of social justice.