The Native Races (Vol. 1-5)
Indigenous Civilizations, Mythologies, Languages, and Lifeways from Alaska to Pre-Columbian Central AmericaBy Hubert Howe Bancroft
Length166h 46m
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Hubert Howe Bancroft's *The Native Races* (Vols. 1–5) is an ambitious, encyclopedic survey of the Indigenous peoples of western North America, encompassing their origins, languages, traditions, social institutions, religions, antiquities, and encounters with European powers. Compiled from chronicles, missionary reports, ethnographic observations, and oral or documentary testimony, the work moves between descriptive ethnology, historical synthesis, and speculative anthropology. Its vast comparative scope and nineteenth-century prose reflect the era's fascination with classification and "civilization," while also revealing the racial hierarchies and evolutionary assumptions that shaped Victorian scholarship. Read today, the set is therefore both a substantial repository of early knowledge and a significant document in the history of colonial intellectual culture. Bancroft (1832–1918), a bookseller, publisher, collector, and self-fashioned historian, assembled an extensive library of western American materials and sponsored a team of researchers whose work informed this series. His commercial and intellectual investment in the history of the Pacific slope encouraged him to preserve sources that might otherwise have remained scattered, even as his dependence on assistants and uneven documentation complicates questions of authorship and authority. The project reflects his determination to produce a comprehensive regional history before Indigenous cultures and memories were further disrupted by settler expansion. Recommended for readers of Indigenous studies, American history, anthropology, historiography, and colonial studies, *The Native Races* rewards careful, critical reading. It should neither be treated as a neutral ethnographic record nor dismissed as mere antiquarianism: its accumulated evidence, methodological contradictions, and colonial assumptions illuminate how knowledge about Native peoples was collected, organized, and legitimized. Scholars will find it especially valuable when read alongside contemporary Indigenous scholarship and modern critiques of nineteenth-century anthropology.
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Publish dateJan 28, 2021
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Table of contents
1The Seminole Indians of Florida (Annotated)
2VOLUME 1
3CHAPTER I. ETHNOLOGICAL INTRODUCTION.
4CHAPTER II. HYPERBOREANS. (pt. 1)
5CHAPTER II. HYPERBOREANS. (pt. 2)
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6CHAPTER III. COLUMBIANS. (pt. 1)
7CHAPTER III. COLUMBIANS. (pt. 2)
8CHAPTER III. COLUMBIANS. (pt. 3)
9CHAPTER IV. CALIFORNIANS. (pt. 1)
10CHAPTER IV. CALIFORNIANS. (pt. 2)
11CHAPTER IV. CALIFORNIANS. (pt. 3)
12CHAPTER V. NEW MEXICANS. (pt. 1)
13CHAPTER V. NEW MEXICANS. (pt. 2)
14CHAPTER VI. WILD TRIBES OF MEXICO. (pt. 1)
15CHAPTER VI. WILD TRIBES OF MEXICO. (pt. 2)
16CHAPTER VII. WILD TRIBES OF CENTRAL AMERICA. (pt. 1)
17CHAPTER VII. WILD TRIBES OF CENTRAL AMERICA. (pt. 2)
18CHAPTER VII. WILD TRIBES OF CENTRAL AMERICA. (pt. 3)
19CHAPTER VII. WILD TRIBES OF CENTRAL AMERICA. (pt. 4)
20CHAPTER VII. WILD TRIBES OF CENTRAL AMERICA. (pt. 5)
21CHAPTER VII. WILD TRIBES OF CENTRAL AMERICA. (pt. 6)
22CHAPTER VII. WILD TRIBES OF CENTRAL AMERICA. (pt. 7)
23CHAPTER VII. WILD TRIBES OF CENTRAL AMERICA. (pt. 8)
24VOLUME 2
25CHAPTER I. SAVAGISM AND CIVILIZATION. (pt. 1)
26CHAPTER I. SAVAGISM AND CIVILIZATION. (pt. 2)
27CHAPTER II. GENERAL VIEW OF THE CIVILIZED NATIONS.
28CHAPTER III. GOVERNMENT OF THE NAHUA NATIONS.
29CHAPTER IV. PALACES AND HOUSEHOLDS OF THE NAHUA KINGS.
30CHAPTER V. THE PRIVILEGED CLASSES AMONG THE NAHUAS.
31CHAPTER VI. PLEBEIANS, SLAVES, TENURE OF LANDS, AND TAXATION.
32CHAPTER VII. EDUCATION, MARRIAGE, CONCUBINAGE, CHILDBIRTH, AND BAPTISM.
33CHAPTER VIII. NAHUA FEASTS AND AMUSEMENTS.
34CHAPTER IX. PUBLIC FESTIVALS.
35CHAPTER X. FOOD OF THE NAHUA NATIONS.
36CHAPTER XI. DRESS OF THE NAHUA NATIONS.
37CHAPTER XII. COMMERCE OF THE NAHUA NATIONS.
38CHAPTER XIII. WAR CUSTOMS OF THE NAHUAS.
39CHAPTER XIV. NAHUA LAWS AND LAW COURTS.
40CHAPTER XV. NAHUA ARTS AND MANUFACTURES.
41CHAPTER XVI. THE AZTEC CALENDAR.
42CHAPTER XVII. THE AZTEC PICTURE-WRITING.
43CHAPTER XVIII. ARCHITECTURE AND DWELLINGS OF THE NAHUAS.
44CHAPTER XIX. MEDICINE AND FUNERAL RITES AMONG THE NAHUAS.
45CHAPTER XX. GOVERNMENT, SOCIAL CLASSES, PROPERTY, AND LAWS OF THE MAYA NATIONS.
46CHAPTER XXI. EDUCATION AND FAMILY MATTERS AMONG THE MAYAS.
47CHAPTER XXII. FEASTS AND AMUSEMENTS OF THE MAYAS.
48CHAPTER XXIII. FOOD, DRESS, COMMERCE, AND WAR CUSTOMS OF THE MAYAS.
49CHAPTER XXIV. MAYA ARTS, CALENDAR, AND HIEROGLYPHICS.
50CHAPTER XXV. BUILDINGS, MEDICINE, BURIAL, PHYSICAL PECULIARITIES, AND CHARACTER OF THE MAYAS. (pt. 1)
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