When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? Wha

Along the way readers encounter the diversity of Indigenous peoples who, owing to their differing lands, livelihoods, and customs, evolved literatures adapted t

When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? Wha

This book begins with the emergence of peoples in North America and traces their stories to the beginning of the early twenty-first century. The narrative rests