Describes simple inventions used by the American Indians to make their life comfortable; tells how these same processes are applied to develop more sophisticate

Treuer, an Ojibwe scholar and cultural preservationist, answers the most commonly asked questions about American Indians, both historical and modern. He gives a

In this unsurpassed history of the Native peoples of the southern United States, J. Leitch Wright Jr. describes Native lives, customs, and encounters with Europ

In this sweeping work of memoir and commentary, leading cultural critic Paul Chaat Smith illustrates with dry wit and brutal honesty the contradictions of life

"After their sequestering on reservations across the West, American Indians suffered from appalling rates of disease and morbidity. While the United States Indi