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Combining an extraordinary collection of photographs with an insightful and illuminating narrative by Native American expert Arlene Hirschfelder, this magnificent book casts a fresh light on the history of the Native American. From the Native people's first contact with European explorers in the early 1500s to the realities of twentieth-century life, every major event in the history of North America's indigenous people is featured. Each story in this tragic, but always intriguing, episode of world history is placed in its chronological context: from early attempts to assimilate Native Americans with the newly emerging white population and the role of indigenous people in the American Civil War, to the ceaseless struggle to hold on to their homelands and their defined role in contemporary society. Specially commissioned maps clearly show the shifting and diminishing Native territories, while eyewitness accounts form participants in the story add a further poignancy to the narrative. Native Americans also investigates the economic, social, and spiritual life of the Native people: a traditional Indian childhood, the nineteenth-century boarding schools, religious beliefs and ceremonies, and ways of hunting and farming. This is a compelling documentary record, which, once opened, is impossible to put down.

With clear and concise narrative and wonderful illustrations, Native Americans tells their story splendidly.¿Birmingham News

In a balanced and beautifully illustrated narrative, Hirschfelder, a specialist on the Native American, offers readers an account from prehistory to the present day. The story of the native American is a bitter and tragic saga of treaties, promises, and broken dreams. Avoiding stereotypes and sensationalism, the author stresses the terrible impact of a conquering culture upon indigenous peoples. Pre-Columbian North Americans were a diverse collection of heterogeneous people who recognized cultural diversity and were generally peaceful. Initially native peoples welcomed Europeans as guests and trading partners, but their guests brought disease, weapons, alcohol, and an unceasing hunger for land. Epidemics, starvation, and war decimated the Native American population. Government treaties and policies of relocation further reduced and impoverished native peoples. not until the 1960s, through the ""Red Power"" movement and more enlightened government policies, did American Indians begin to achieve a degree of self determination. The attractive design and layout of this volume are typical of this publisher's productions. With plenty of white space and well chosen illustrations, the book will be especially appealing to browsers, but students will also find useful information for research projects. The further information section provides a list of recent print sources as well as native American organizations and Web sites, Public and school libraries will want to add this reasonably priced volume to their collections¿Voya Reviews

 

In this profusely and creatively illustrated book, Hirschfelder, an award-winning author who was formerly with the Association for American Indian Affairs, responds to the insatiable demand for depictions of Indians and their ways of life. Text sections, arranged in a loose chronological order, include A Conflict of Cultures, Dispossession, and Loss, War Against Native Peoples, and Resurgence and Renewal. Each section features vignettes from the history of Indian-white relations the massacre at Sand Creek, for example and illustrations and photographs that help tell the story. In Native Voice sections, readers are exposed to the thoughts of historical and contemporary Native American leaders as expressed in their speeches or writings. There is a great deal of information packed in these heavily illustrated pages, but not a lot of attention is paid to any single subject. An indifferent index fails to include much of the information found in picture captions. The book is best for browsers of Native American History. Recommended for general collections. ¿Library Journal