native americans

Presents a photographic survey of the history and culture of the Native American tribes of the Southeast, Southwest, Great Plains, Plateau, and Basin.

Displays and describes twenty-five specialized collections of Southwestern pottery.

Examines archaeological evidence of humans in North America, considering the various groups who might have been first on the continent.

Describes the histories and cultures of the Native American tribes of North America, focusing on eight regions, and detailing the lives of significant individuals such as Sitting Bull, Sacagawea, Red Jacket, Oren Lyons, and others.

Rev. ed. of: The American Heritage history of the Indian wars. c1977. A history of the 300 years of Indianwhite warfare in the United States.

Traces the history and origin of the legends, folktales, and traditions of four major Native American groups in New England from their earliest encounter with white settlers.

In 1832 President Andrew Jackson uprooted the Indians of the South, forced them overnight to abandon their homes and march hundreds of miles westward.

National Geographic explorer Johan Reinhard chronicles his high-altitude archaeological adventures in the Andes, focusing on the 1995 discovery of the Incan Ice Maiden, sacrificed five hundred years earlier, and the 1999 find of three Inca children on Llullaillaco, frozen in a state of near perfection.

Describes the nature and significance of Indian wampum belts, focusing on their history and uses by the Iroquois.

In 1881, after sixteen-year-old Bin-daa-dee-nin, an Apache fugitive, prays for help to survive in the mountains of New Mexico, he encounters a unique horse, and the path of his life with that horse crosses the life path of fourteen-year-old Sarah Chilton.