The American Heritage Book of Indians Author:William Brandon, Alvin M. Josephy Jr. (Editor) The American Heritage Book of Indians is a classic of American Indian History. It is the entire epic in one volume, in a balanced, scholarly perspective told with verve and richly illustrated. — For more than 20,000 years Indians were the sole inhabitants of an incredibly vast land. Fanning out from Alaska, they learned to cope with biso... more »n and grizzly, and they looked with the first human eyes upon the Mississippi River, the Ohio River, the Niagara River, and the Massachusetts coast. The cultures they developed were dramatic, and many of the civilizations they built were majestic and mighty. This book follows the thread of history, century by century, of all Indians, as they affected each other, as they affected the white man -- and as the white man, in the end, nearly exterminated the Indian.
No other volume brings together so colorful and comprehensive a collection of historical pictures of Indians. There are more than 450 illustrations, over one hundred reproduced in color. They are the result of a search that led through hundreds of libraries, museums, archives, and public and private collections throughout the world.
The American Heritage Book of Indians is a comprehensive overview of the American Indian, full of fascinating information and lavishly illustrated.« less