native americans

Looks at religion and the social customs of Native Americans of North America, focusing on tribes, territories, spirits, symbols, myths, cosmos, and other topics.

A brief biography of American artist George Catlin, who created artwork that depicted Native American life and culture, detailing their customs, rituals, and dress.

A study of the Aztec people of pre-Columbian America, drawing from the results of excavations, historical documentation, and first-hand knowledge to examine their origins, civilization, religion, science, and thought.

Text with maps, photographs, and reconstruction drawings provide an account of the first Americans.

Explores the history, culture, and traditions of the ancient Aztec, Inca, and Maya peoples of Mesoamerica.

A collection of over 1,000 color photographs, paintings, maps, and artifacts that chronicle the history and culture of the ancient Aztec, Maya, Olmec, Mixtec, Toltec, and Zapotec people.

Photographs, illustrations, and maps explore the ancient Inca civilizations and other cultures of ancient South America; and describes their artistic achievements, religion, government, and fall of the Incan empire.

Draws on historical and archaeological research to describe what life was like in North America in the time before Columbus landed, exploring the people's religious beliefs, social structure, hunting, housing, food, dress, and traditions.

Presents the story of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines, two extended families who live on and around a Chippewa reservation in North Dakota and of Lipsha Morrissey, a young man who attempts to bring his wandering grandfather back to his long-suffering grandmother with a love medicine made from goosehearts.