Product Description: This volume profiles over 1,500 American Indian basketmakers over the past two centuries from the Southwest, Great Basin and California. This book was created with the cooperation of American Indian artists. Through personal interviews, archival research and artist surveys, information was collected in 25 fields, including the artist's tribe, clan, active years, type of baskets, lifespan, family relationships, education, teachers, students, awards, exhibitions, collections, forms, techniques, materials, favorite designs and publications...read more

Product Description: This volume profiles over 1,200 Indian jewelers from all tribes over the past two centuries. The text is illustrated with over 2,000 photographs. This book was created with the cooperation of Indian artists. Through artist surveys, archival research and personal interviews, information was collected in 25 categories: including the artist's tribe, clan, active years, type of jewelry, lifespan, family relationships, education, teachers, students, awards, exhibitions, collections, forms, techniques, materials, favorite designs, and publications...read more

Product Description: This book presents brief biographical profiles of American Indian textile artists. They are organized in to three groups: "Navajo Weavers," "Pueblo Textile Artists," and "Other Native American Textile Artists."The purpose of the series is to introduce people to American Indian artists and their fine arts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Uses epic migration sagas to uncover clues about indigenous peoples (view table of contents)

Product Description: SUBJECT: U.S. Constitution, First Amendment, Religion, Government, U.S. History, Biography, and Law. In the American tradition of historical narratives, this book traces the lives of Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison with emphasis on their religious views and personal expressions of faith...read more

Product Description: This book is designed to introduce people to the artists and to their fine art pottery. Featuring 450 illustrations of artist portraits, historic village scenes, authentic signatures and hallmarks, pottery making and hundreds of pots, the volume profiles 500 artists over the past two centuries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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The correspondence between George Morgan, the first Indian agent for the Continental Congress, and Washington, John Hancock, and others, reveals the relationship between the Indians and the American rebels