BOOK COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 OVERVIEW -- NORTH AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE -- NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE AREAS -- CHAPTER 2 THE AMERICAN ARCTIC AND SUBARCTIC CULTURES -- PEOPLES OF THE AMERICAN ARCTIC -- LINGUISTIC COMPOSITION -- ETHNIC GROUPS -- TRADITIONAL CULTURE -- HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENTS -- CONTEMPORARY DEVELOPMENTS -- AMERICAN SUBARCTIC PEOPLES -- ETHOS -- TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION -- SETTLEMENT AND HOUSING -- PRODUCTION AND TECHNOLOGY -- PROPERTY AND SOCIAL STRATIFICATION -- FAMILY AND KINSHIP RELATIONS -- SOCIALIZATION OF CHILDREN -- RELIGIOUS BELIEFS -- CULTURAL CONTINUITY AND CHANGE -- CHAPTER 3 NORTHWEST COAST AND CALIFORNIA CULTURE AREAS -- NORTHWEST COAST INDIAN PEOPLES -- LINGUISTIC AND TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION -- STRATIFICATION AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE -- SUBSISTENCE, SETTLEMENT PATTERNS, AND HOUSING -- TECHNOLOGY AND THE VISUAL ARTS -- KINSHIP AND FAMILY LIFE -- RELIGION AND THE PERFORMING ARTS -- CULTURAL CONTINUITY AND CHANGE -- CALIFORNIA INDIAN PEOPLES -- REGIONAL AND TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION -- SETTLEMENT PATTERNS -- PRODUCTION AND TECHNOLOGY -- PROPERTY AND EXCHANGE SYSTEMS -- LEADERSHIP AND SOCIAL STATUS -- RELIGION -- MARRIAGE AND CHILD REARING -- ARTS -- CULTURAL CONTINUITY AND CHANGE -- CHAPTER 4 PLATEAU AND GREAT BASIN CULTURE AREAS -- PLATEAU NATIVE PEOPLES -- LANGUAGE -- TRADE AND INTERACTION -- SETTLEMENT PATTERNS AND HOUSING -- SUBSISTENCE AND MATERIAL CULTURE -- POLITICAL ORGANIZATION -- KINSHIP -- CHILDHOOD AND SOCIALIZATION -- BELIEF SYSTEMS -- CULTURAL CONTINUITY AND CHANGE -- PEOPLES OF THE GREAT BASIN -- LANGUAGE -- TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMY -- SOCIAL ORGANIZATION -- KINSHIP AND MARRIAGE -- RELIGION AND RITUAL -- MODERN DEVELOPMENTS -- CHAPTER 5 SOUTHWEST AND PLAINS CULTURE AREAS -- SOUTHWEST INDIAN PEOPLES -- LANGUAGE -- SUBSISTENCE, SETTLEMENT PATTERNS, AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION.

SOCIALIZATION AND EDUCATION -- BELIEF AND AESTHETIC SYSTEMS -- CULTURAL CONTINUITY AND CHANGE -- PLAINS INDIAN PEOPLES -- LINGUISTIC ORGANIZATION -- THE ROLE OF THE HORSE IN PLAINS LIFE -- SETTLEMENT PATTERNS AND HOUSING -- MATERIAL CULTURE AND TRADE -- POLITICAL ORGANIZATION -- KINSHIP AND FAMILY -- SOCIALIZATION AND EDUCATION -- SOCIAL RANK AND WARFARE -- BELIEF SYSTEMS -- CULTURAL CONTINUITY AND CHANGE -- CHAPTER 6 NORTHEAST AND SOUTHEAST CULTURE AREAS -- NORTHEAST INDIAN PEOPLES -- TERRITORIAL AND POLITICAL ORGANIZATION -- SUBSISTENCE, SETTLEMENT PATTERNS, AND HOUSING -- PRODUCTION AND TECHNOLOGY -- SOCIAL ORGANIZATION -- KINSHIP AND FAMILY LIFE -- RELIGION -- CULTURAL CONTINUITY AND CHANGE -- SOUTHEAST INDIAN PEOPLES -- TRADITIONAL CULTURE PATTERNS -- CULTURAL CONTINUITY AND CHANGE -- CHAPTER 7 NATIVE AMERICAN ART -- THE ROLE OF THE ARTIST -- ORIGINS OF DESIGNS -- THE FUNCTION OF ART -- MATERIALS -- REGIONAL STYLES OF AMERICAN INDIAN VISUAL ARTS -- SOUTHWEST -- MIDWEST AND GREAT PLAINS -- FAR WEST, NORTHEAST, CENTRAL SOUTH, AND SOUTHEAST -- ESKIMO (INUIT) -- NORTHWEST COAST -- ARTS OF CONTEMPORARY NATIVE AMERICANS -- CHAPTER 8 NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC -- MUSIC IN NATIVE AMERICAN CULTURE -- MUSICAL EVENTS -- MUSIC AND LANGUAGE -- ASPECTS OF STYLE -- REGIONAL STYLES -- NORTHEAST AND SOUTHEAST INDIANS -- PLAINS -- GREAT BASIN -- SOUTHWEST -- NORTHWEST COAST -- ARCTIC -- MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS -- IDIOPHONES -- MEMBRANOPHONES -- AEROPHONES -- CHORDOPHONES -- MUSIC HISTORY OF THE NATIVE AMERICANS -- COLONIAL MIXTURES -- INDIGENOUS TRENDS FROM 1800 -- PARTICIPATION IN ART MUSIC -- THE STUDY OF AMERICAN INDIAN MUSICS -- CHAPTER 9 NATIVE AMERICAN DANCE -- EXTENT OF DANCE FORMS -- PATTERNS OF PARTICIPATION -- SOCIALLY DETERMINED ROLES IN DANCE -- RELIGIOUS EXPRESSION IN DANCE -- PATTERNS AND BODY MOVEMENT -- FOREIGN INFLUENCES AND REGIONAL DANCE STYLES.

ESKIMO (INUIT) -- NORTHEAST AND SOUTHEAST INDIANS -- THE GREAT PLAINS -- THE NORTHWEST COAST -- THE GREAT BASIN, THE PLATEAU, AND CALIFORNIA -- THE SOUTHWEST -- STUDY AND EVALUATION -- CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ARCTIC AND SUBARCTIC -- NORTHWEST COAST AND CALIFORNIA -- PLATEAU AND GREAT BASIN -- SOUTHWEST AND PLAINS -- NORTHEAST AND SOUTHEAST -- NATIVE AMERICAN ART -- NATIVE AMERICAN MUSIC -- NATIVE AMERICAN DANCE -- INDEX -- BACK COVER.