Peopling of the Americas 6
A vast continent 8
Medicine and the spirit world 10
The far Northeast 12
The League of the Iroquois 14
The three sisters 16
The Mid-Atlantic Seaboard 18
The Ohio River Valley 20
Western Great Lakes 22
The settled Southeast 24
The "Five Civilized Tribes" 26
The Great Plains 28
The Dakota (Sioux) 30
Mandan and Hidatsa 32
War and peace 34
The Sun Dance 36
The high Plateau 38
The Great Basin 40
Californian hunter-gatherers 42
The stunning Southwest 44
The Pueblo peoples 46
Apache and Navajo 48
Papago and Pima 50
Land of the totem poles 52
Art second to none 54
The power of potlatch 56
Northern hunters 58
The frozen Arctic 60
Modern times 62
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