San Antonio College Library

Before Columbus, before the Pilgrims, Native Americans used indigenous plants, seafood, and game in cooking traditions that are still very much alive. This carefully researched cookbook presents 150 authentic recipes from across the United States, incorporating many indigenous ingredients hailed today for their healthfulness and flavor: wild rice, corn, beans, sunflower seeds, venison, buffalo, fowl, and fish. There are traditional dishes from the...

Sepia portrait photographs of native women of the West by famous photographer Edward Curtis.

The author discusses the arts and crafts of the American Indian, describing characteristics of the art of different tribes and the techniques used increating pottery, textiles, and basketry.

Chronicles the engagements between Indians and the white man during the settling of America, including the Battle of Wounded Knee that ended the Indian Wars.

Even as interest in the powerful, often tragic history of Native America grows, many books continue to perpetuate long-standing misconceptions of the past as well as the romantic stereotypes often popularized today. Readers can now rely on Encyclopedia of North American Indians for an authentic and often surprising portrait of the complexities of the Native American experience. Written by more than 260 contemporary authorities, the volume features...

This is a comprehensive and thought-provoking approach to the history of the native peoples of North America (including Mexico and Canada) and their civilizations from earliest evidence to 1990.

"A descriptive list of the stocks, confederacies, tribes, tribal divisions, and settlements north of Mexico, accompanied with the various names by which these have been known, together with biographies of Indians of note, sketches of their history, archeology, manners, arts, customs, and institutions, and the aboriginal words incorporated into the English language.--From the Letter of transmittal.

Contains Native American narratives from all parts of the continent, grouped together by motif.