Geographical Perspectives on Native Americans: Topics and Resources. Publication No. 1.

Emphasizing human geography, this collection of 10 papers is designed to constitute basic lecture topics for a college level course concerned with Native American human geography and to serve as a guide to published materials and primary data/documentary sources on Native Americans. Comprised of three sections, this publication includes an exemplary course syllabus, seven papers on various aspects of human geography, and three papers which describe and/or list both published and unpublished sources for geographic study of Native Americans. Papers are titled as follows: "Where Are the Indians?" (the syllabus); "Native American Traditional Economic Values and Systems: Some Dispersed Samples"; "The Mormon Indian Farms: An Attempt at Cultural Integration"; "Some Concepts of Sacred Space Among North American Indians"; "Native American Employment in a Frontier Region"; "A Geographical Analysis of Demographic and Economic Characteristics of the Choctaw Indian in Oklahoma and Mississippi"; "American Indian Migrant Spatial Behavior as an Indicator of Adjustment in Chicago"; "The American Indian Family in Los Angeles"; "National Archives and Records Service Resources for the Study of Native Americans"; "Material of Geographic Import in the National Anthropological Archives"; "Census Data and Native Americans". (JC)