Countries and Cultures

A comprehensive encyclopedia consisting of hundreds of A-to-Z entries on events, themes, people, places, and legislation related to immigration.

This work includes 175 ethnic entries on specific minority groups in the U.S., with an emphasis on culture (religions, holidays, customs, language) in addition to information on historical background and settlement patterns. The encyclopedia also covers ethnoreligious groups such as Jews, Chaldeans and Amish also.

Provides primary source documents focused on immigration and multiculturalism in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Contains approximately 175 full or excerpted documents---speeches, legislation, magazine and newspaper articles, essays, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, songs, and works of art---as well as overview information that places each document in context. International in scope.

Detailed studies of tribes from all over the United States and Canada, including small tribes and some that no longer exist. Includes history, religion, art, government, economy, daily life and current social and political issues.

"This tribal history of the Spokane Indians, by and large, focuses on the interaction of the Spokanes with white settlers and with the US government. It describes the encroachment of the Spokanes' land and their enforced settlement on reservations, as well as the legal and political efforts of the Spokanes to seek redress." Publisher

Historical and current information concerning approximately 400 Native groups in the Americas written or reviewed where possible by Native American authors or tribal councils.

America is home to one million Gypsies, or Rom, whose rich culture has long been mysterious to outsiders. Jimmy Marks a flamboyant Romani leader who lives in Spokane, Washington, invites the viewer into this closed world.