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A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

By Oliver LaFarge

Publisher: Crown Publishers, Inc. New York, 1956

Softcover, first edition, 272 pages, excellent condition

Table of Contents

I.        They Discovered America

II.       Kings of the South

III.      Mothers and Tortures

IV.       The Wigwam People

V.        The Western Farmers

VI.       The Old Settlers

VII.      The Great Open Spaces

VIII.     Behind the Shining Mountains

IX.       The Eagle, The Raven, and The Whale

X.        Ghosts and Drugs

XI.       The Non-Vanishing Americans

Pulitzer-Prize-Winner Oliver LaFarge was twice president of the Association on American Indian Affairs, has participated in several anthropological expeditions to the Navaho country, Mexico, and Guatemala.  He was instrumental in framing an alphabet for writing Navajo.  He won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel about the Indian, Laughing Boy.

 In A Pictorial History of the American Indian, Mr. LaFarge traces the history of the Indians of North America, correcting many misconceptions and reconstructing in great detail the life of the Indians in every section of North America.