Includes bibliographical references (pages 405-417) and index.
Contents:
1 The Choctaw Landscape 1 -- 2 Choctaw Subsistence 16 -- 3 The Evolution of the Choctaw Play-off System 34 -- 4 Liquor and Deerskins: Consequences of the Market Economy 69 -- 5 The Collapse of the Traditional Economy 97 -- 6 The Pawnees 147 -- 7 Natural and Cultural Order 157 -- 8 Social Change and Environmental Change 178 -- 9 The Pawnee Decline 199 -- 10 The Navajos 212 -- 11 Navajo Culture and Economy 236 -- 12 Southwestern Development and Navajo Underdevelopment 250 -- 13 The Navajos Become Dependent 290.