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Photographs and descriptive text provide information on the people, cities, culture, food and drink, trade, gods and goddesses, clothes, sports and games, and other aspects of the Aztec, Inca, and Maya civilizations.

Lavishly illustrated account of the lives, religion, customs, sports, homes, horses and history of the Indian tribes of the American West.

This fully updated reference explores more than 200 North American tribes, prehistoric peoples, and civilizations. Arranged alphabetically by tribe or group, this comprehensive work offers 60 new entries on tribes not covered in the previous editions. The accessible text summarizes the historical record and includes present-day tribal affairs and issues. The book also covers diet, housing, tools, clothing, art, rituals, and more.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. For this elegant thirtieth anniversary hardcover edition, Brown has contributed an incisive...

An account of current archaeological views on a variety of permanent settlements in pre-Columbian North America

Offers a history of the Inca Empire and chronicles Incan life through the archaeological discoveries found in the Andes Mountains.

Contains 56 maps, 329 illustrations, and accompanying text describing ancient American art, history, and archaeology.

Over 100 maps cover the history, culture, and tribal locations of Indians in the U.S., Canada, and Middle America from ancient times to the present.

Includes sixteen stories that celebrate the passage from girlhood to womanhood.

This is the stirring, crowded, epic story - laden with courageous deeds and dreams fulfilled and betrayed - of the hundreds of Indian nations that have inhabited our continent for more than 15,000 years and their centuries-long struggle with the Europeans who arrived in ever-increasing hordes after 1492. Here is American history from the Native American point of view - a long saga of friendship, treachery, war, and ultimately the loss of homeland...