The Handbook of North American Indians is a series of edited scholarly and reference volumes in Native American studies, published by the Smithsonian Institution beginning in 1978. Planning for the handbook series began in the late 1960s and work was initiated following a special congressional appropriation in fiscal year 1971. To date, 16 volumes have been published. Each volume addresses a subtopic of Americanist research and contains a number of articles or chapters by individual specialists in the field coordinated and edited by a volume editor. The overall series of 20 volumes is planned and coordinated by a general or series editor. Until the series was suspended, mainly due to lack of funds, the series editor was William C. Sturtevant, who died in 2007. This work documents information about all Indigenous peoples of the Americas north of Mexico, including cultural and physical aspects of the people, language family, history, and worldviews. This series is a reference work for historians, anthropologists, other scholars, and the general reader. The series utilized noted authorities for each topic. The set is illustrated, indexed, and has extensive bibliographies. Volumes may be purchased individually.

Bibliographic information

Handbook of North American Indians / William C. Sturtevant, General Editor. Washington, DC : Smithsonian Institution: For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents., 1978–.

Volume 1: Introduction

, https://doi.org/10.5479/si.21262173 Native American Histories in the Twenty-First Century New Cultural Domains Native American Experiences in the Twenty-First Century Transitions in Native North American Research The Smithsonian Handbook Project, 1965–2008 End Matter

Volume 2: Indians in Contemporary Society

The Issues in the United States The Issues in Canada Demographic and Ethnic Issues Social and Cultural Revitalization

Volume 3: Environment, Origins, and Population

Paleo-Indian Plant and Animal Resources Skeletal Biology and Population Size Human Biology

Volume 4: History of Indian-White relations

National Policies Military Situation Political Relations Economic Relations Religious Relations Conceptual Relations

Non-Indian Biographies

Volume 5: Arctic

Western Arctic Canadian Arctic Greenland The 1950-1980 Period

Volume 6: Subarctic

Subarctic Shield and Mackenzie Borderlands Subarctic Cordillera Alaska Plateau South of the Alaska Range Native Settlements Special Topics

Volume 7: Northwest Coast

History of Research History of Contact The Peoples Special Topics

Volume 8: California

Volume 9: Southwest

Volume 9 covers the Pueblo tribes of the Southwest. Volume 10 covers the non-Pueblo tribes of the Southwest.

Volume 10: Southwest

Volume 10 covers the non-Pueblo tribes of the Southwest. Volume 9 covers the Pueblo tribes of the Southwest.

Volume 11: Great Basin

Prehistory Ethnology History Special Topics

Volume 12: Plateau

Prehistory History The Peoples Special Topics

Volume 13: Plains

Volume 13 is physically bound in two volumes (Part 1 and Part 2), but page numbering is continuous between the two parts. Part 1 ends at "Plains Métis", page 676. Prehistory History Prairie Plains High Plains Special Topics

Volume 14: Southeast

Regional Prehistory History Florida Atlantic Coastal Plain Interior Southeast Mississippi Valley and Gulf Coastal Plain Special Topics

Volume 15: Northeast

General Prehistory Coastal Region Saint Lawrence Lowlands Region Great Lakes-Riverine Region

Volume 17: Languages

The map "Native Languages and Language Families of North America" compiled by Ives Goddard is included in a pocket in the inside cover along with a small photographic reproduction of John Wesley Powell's 1891 map, "Linguistic Stocks of American Indians North of Mexico". A wall size version of the former is available separately (ISBN 978-0-8032-9269-7). Grammatical Sketches

Planned, but Unpublished Volumes

With the suspension of publication, the following volumes remain unpublished.