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A comprehensive, authoritative, and thoroughly absorbing history of the Indians of North America from the time of the discovery of this continent up to the present.

Study of these intermediaries between two civilizations, based on interviews, letters and other first-hand accounts.

"This superb, fully illustrated reference offers the most up-to-date and essential facts on the identity, kinships, locations, populations and cultural characteristics of some 400 separately identifiable peoples native to the North American continent, both living and extinct, from the Canadian Arctic to the Rio Grande. This revised edition adds 32 pages, updates all facts and provides improved illustrations and maps. The abundance of illustrations...

The received idea of Native American history--as promulgated by books like Dee Brown's mega-bestselling 1970 Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee--has been that American Indian history essentially ended with the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee. Not only did one hundred fifty Sioux die at the hands of the U. S. Cavalry, the sense was, but Native civilization did as well. Growing up Ojibwe on a reservation in Minnesota, training as an anthropologist, and researching...

Indian (Native American) myths and legends of creation, sun, moon, stars, heroes, monsters, warriors, love, lust, Coyote the trickster, animals, ghosts, and the end of the world.

A collection of Native American myths and legends that reveals the deeper meanings of the culture of the nation's original civilization.

"The culture, arts, crafts and religion of the Plains Indians. Profusely illustrated."--Dust jacket.