Handbook of North American Indians


The Handbook of North American Indians is a series of edited scholarly and reference volumes in Native American studies, published by the Smithsonian Institution beginning in 1978. Planning for the handbook series began in the late 1960s and work was initiated following a special congressional appropriation in fiscal year 1971.
To date, 15 volumes have been published. Each volume addresses a subtopic of Americanist research and contains a number of articles or chapters by individual specialists in the field coordinated and edited by a volume editor. The overall series of 20 volumes is planned and coordinated by a general or series editor. Until the series was suspended, mainly due to lack of funds, the series editor was William C. Sturtevant, who died in 2007.
This work documents information about all Indigenous peoples of the Americas north of Mexico, including cultural and physical aspects of the people, language family, history, and worldviews. This series is a reference work for historians, anthropologists, other scholars, and the general reader. The series utilized noted authorities for each topic. The set is illustrated, indexed, and has extensive bibliographies. Volumes may be purchased individually.

Bibliographic information

Handbook of North American Indians / William C. Sturtevant, General Editor. Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution: For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents., 1978–.

Volume 2: Indians in Contemporary Society

The Issues in the United States
The Issues in Canada
Demographic and Ethnic Issues
Social and Cultural Revitalization
Paleo-Indian
Plant and Animal Resources
Skeletal Biology and Population Size
Human Biology
National Policies
Military Situation
Political Relations
Economic Relations
Religious Relations
Conceptual Relations
Western Arctic
Canadian Arctic
Greenland
The 1950-1980 Period
Subarctic Shield and Mackenzie Borderlands
Subarctic Cordillera
Alaska Plateau
South of the Alaska Range
Native Settlements
Special Topics
History of Research
History of Contact
The Peoples
Special Topics
Volume 9 covers the Pueblo tribes of the Southwest. Volume 10 covers the non-Pueblo tribes of the Southwest.
Volume 10 covers the non-Pueblo tribes of the Southwest. Volume 9 covers the Pueblo tribes of the Southwest.
Prehistory
Ethnology
History
Special Topics
Prehistory
History
The Peoples
Special Topics
Volume 13 is physically bound in two volumes, but page numbering is continuous between the two parts. Part 1 ends at "Plains Métis", page 676.
Prehistory
History
Prairie Plains
High Plains
Special Topics
Regional Prehistory
History
Florida
Atlantic Coastal Plain
Interior Southeast
Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coastal Plain
Special Topics
General Prehistory
Coastal Region
Saint Lawrence Lowlands Region
Great Lakes-Riverine Region
The map "Native Languages and Language Families of North America" compiled by Ives Goddard is included in a pocket in the inside cover along with a small photographic reproduction of John Wesley Powell's 1891 map, "Linguistic Stocks of American Indians North of Mexico". A wall size version of the former is available separately.
Grammatical Sketches
With the suspension of publication, the following volumes remain unpublished.