This book gives the history and culture of the Navajos, the largest Native American tribe in the United States today.

Presents a brief introduction to the Comanche Indians including information on their society, homes, food, clothing, crafts, and life today.

Easy-to read text and oversized photographs introduce readers to the Navajo and their traditions including social structure, homes, food, art, clothing, and more.

A look at the history of the Chickasaws and their lives today.

Presents a brief introduction to the Sioux Indians, including information on their homes, society, food, clothing, family life, and life today.

Describes the movement of Native Americans onto government-run reservations and presents a look at reservation life today.

Maps, illustrations, photographs, and text present the world of North, Central, and South American Indians as they existed a hundred years ago.

Twenty-four Native American legends and tales from across the United States capture a wide range of belief systems and wisdom from the Cherokee, Cheyenne, Hopi, Lenape, Maidu, Seminole, Seneca, and other tribes. The beautifully retold tales, each with an informative introduction, range from creation stories and animal fables to stirring accounts of bravery and sacrifice.

"15 hands-on activites: Build inventions, tools, and works of art, meet the people whose culture helped form our own, explore the history of Native Americans with hands-on activities, learn how the discoveries of the First americans affect us today."

This study of Native American societies is adapted for younger readers from Charles C. Mann's best-selling 1491. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the book argues that the people of North and South America lived in enormous cities, raised pyramids hundreds of years before the Egyptians did, engineered corn, and farmed the rainforests.