American Indian customs, stories, and history come to life in this important and authoritative reference, artfully designed and packaged for kids and students. More than 160 tribes are featured in this outstanding new encyclopedia, which presents a comprehensive overview of the history of North America's Native peoples. From the Apache to the Zuni, readers will learn about each tribe's history, traditions, and culture, including the impact of European...

Contains chapters on Indian and White confrontations from 1492 to 1891 including King Philip's War, Black Hawk's War, and the campaigns against the Sioux, Comanche, Navajo, and Apache.

Wide-ranging, representative sampling of myths and legends collected from a diversity of tribes contains nearly 100 stories of heroes, journeys to the other world, animal wives and husbands, tales borrowed from the Europeans, and even biblical subjects. Includes "The Woman Who Fell from the Sky" (Seneca), "The Star Husband" (Ojibwa), "The Bear-Woman" (Blackfoot), "Cinderella" (Zuñi), "Making the Princess Laugh" (Micmac), "Crossing the Red Sea" (Cheyenne),...

Though she is fond of her people, a girl prefers to live among the wild horses where she is truly happy and free.

Includes Indian narratives on contact and relations with the white man and government relations from earliest times through the founding of AIM and the occupation of Alcatraz.

Examines the culture and history of those Indian tribes that lived in pre-colonial New England.