Uses maps, text, and illustrations to present the history of the area known as the Fertile Crescent, the Ancient Near East, and Mesopotamia, from its earliest period in the fifth millennium B.C.E. through the Sassanian Empire.
Examines the Wild West from the time European settlers first encountered the land and native peoples in the 1600s to the late 1800s, exploring the changing lives of Native Americans, women, cowboys, lawmen, and outlaws.
People of the Totem: The Indians of the Pacific Northwest
Exploring Ancient Egypt
Describes the diversity of the lives of primitive Native Americans, including the economic structure, beliefs, and social organization and history of principal groups and tribes.
A photographic study of the Sioux, Cheyenne, Mandan, and Arapaho explores their way of life, medicines, beliefs, and rituals
A discussion of the hostilities between European-American settlers and the native American population and their impact on both settlers and Indians.
Native Americans believed that it was their responsibility to maintain harmony in the natural world on which they depended by performing a variety of rituals. Shamans were credited with exceptional...