This fully updated reference explores more than 200 North American tribes, prehistoric peoples, and civilizations. Arranged alphabetically by tribe or group, this comprehensive work offers 60 new entries on tribes not covered in the previous editions. The accessible text summarizes the historical record and includes present-day tribal affairs and issues. The book also covers diet, housing, tools, clothing, art, rituals, and more.

With a 20-page color fold-out, this book is the first illustrated chronology on Native American history, complete with color maps of important sites in history.A 32-page appendix, with a chronology of Native American prehistory, a biographical dictionary, a guide to famous battles and incidents, a glossary of cultural terms.

Over 1000 alphabetically arranged entries retell the lives of prominent Indians and the white men and women who interacted with them.

Traces the mass human migration across the North American continent.