An Illustrated History Of North American Indians
This is the epic story of the hundreds of Indian nations that have inhabited North America for more than 15,000 years and of their centuries-long struggle with the Europeans. It is a story of friendship, treachery, courage and war. It begins when Columbus disembarked at Hispaniola among the Arawaks in 1492 and comes to a climax in 1890 when the last groups of Sioux were moved onto a reservation following the massacre at Wounded Knee.
We meet men and women, heroes and villains through their own words, their lives recreated from memory, memoir and ancient documents.
Written by the celebrated historian Alvin Josephy, lavishly illustrated with nearly 500 paintings, woodcuts, photographs and Indian artefacts, this thrilling and beautiful book shows us the many worlds of North America's Indians, as we have never seen them before.
