Edward H. Spicer's Books

Examines the effects of European expansion on the language, social structure, economy, religion, and self-image of Navajo, Yaqui, Papago, and other native American communities

Back in Print! "Sketches the history and culture of the Tucson area Yaqui and contains case studies of a number of the informants. What constituted 'Yaquiness' in Pascua was mainly a common language, a shared historical tradition, and an aberrant form of Catholic Christianity laced with Yaqui concepts. This clearly and concisely written book is very important in its own terms as an early example of the use of life histories in ethnology and as a significant contribution to Yaqui studies."—Choice "Spicer's methodology included biography as a means to better understand Yaqui behaviors, choices, and attitudes about others. . . . Marvelously written and should benefit a diverse readership."—Explorations in Sights and Sounds

After more than fifty years, Cycles of Conquest is still one of the best syntheses of more than four centuries of conquest, colonization, and resistance ever published. It explores how ten major Native groups in northern Mexico and what is now the United States responded to political incorporation, linguistic hegemony, community reorganization, religious conversion, and economic integration. Thomas E. Sheridan writes in the new foreword commissioned for this special edition that the book is “monumental in scope and magisterial in presentation.” Cycles of Conquest remains a seminal work, deeply influencing how we have come to view the greater Southwest and its peoples.

This study is based on a thirty-month residence in Yaqui communities in both Arizona and Sonora and consists of integrating information from documented historical writing, of some primary source documents, of three centuries of contemporary descriptions of Yaqui customs and individuals, and of anthropological studies based on direct observation.

During the 1880s a massive scientific effort was launched by the Smithsonian Institution to discover who had built the prehistoric burial mounds found throughout the United States. Arkansaw Mounds tells the story of this exploration and of Edward Palmer, one of the nineteenth century’s greatest natural historians and archaeologists, who was recruited to lead the research project. Arkansas was unusually rich in prehistoric remains, especially mounds, and became a major focus of the study. Palmer and his team of researchers discovered that the mounds had been built by the ancestors of the historic North American Indians, shattering the then-popular theory that a lost non-Indian race had built them.

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

This volume is unique in that it proceeds from the standpoint of Indian-Indian relations, both within communities and among different nations; it treats relations with whites as only one factor of Indian history. The book covers the period from the earliest white explorations to the middle of the twentieth century.

Book's by Edward H. Spicer

Cycles of Conquest

Cycles of Conquest

People of Pascua

People of Pascua

Cycles of Conquest

Cycles of Conquest

The Yaquis

The Yaquis

Edward Palmer's Arkansaw Mounds

Edward Palmer's Arkansaw Mounds

History of the Upper Mississippi Valley. Containing the Geology of the Upper Mississippi and Saint Louis Valleys

History of the Upper Mississippi Valley. Containing the Geology of the Upper Mississippi and Saint Louis Valleys

A Short History of the Indians of the United States

A Short History of the Indians of the United States

Cycles of Conquest

Cycles of Conquest

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