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First Americans -- The Archaic Period: 7000-1000 BCE -- Nuclear America -- Classical era -- Early Woodland, 1000-100 BCE -- Middle Woodland, 100 BCE-400 CE -- The west coast -- Late Woodland, to 1600 CE -- Cahokia and the Mississippian Period, 950-1600 CE -- The American southwest -- The interior west -- The north -- Overview: North America, 1600 -- Issues and puzzles

" Felix Cohen, the lawyer and scholar who wrote The Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1942), was enormously influential in American Indian policy making. Yet histories of the Indian New Deal, a 1934 program of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, neglect Cohen and instead focus on John Collier, commissioner of Indian affairs within the Department of the Interior (DOI). Alice Beck Kehoe examines why Cohen, who, as DOI assistant solicitor, wrote the legislation for the Indian Reorganization Act (1934) and Indian Claims Commission Act (1946), has received less attention. Even more neglected was the contribution that Cohen's wife, Lucy Kramer Cohen, an anthropologist trained by Franz Boas, made to the process.

Disciplined Hearts: History, Identity, and Depression in art American Indian Community. Theresa DeLeane O'Nell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996. 252 pp.