The Native Americans: an illustrated history

The world as it was / by David Hurst Thomas

Blending worlds / by Jay Miller

Expansion and exodus / by Richard White

Long threads / by Peter Nabokov

The twentieth century and beyond / by Philip J. Deloria

Tribes by culture area and language family.

Introduction / Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.

World as it was. The long span of time ; Spreading out across America ; Middle American civilizations ; Native farming ingenuity ; Life of the plains and woodlands ; Indian confederacies / David Hurst Thomas

Blending worlds. The richness of a vast continent ; Confrontation in the "new" world ; The southwest and coastal California ; The northeast ; The English and the Atlantic coast ; The plains and the northwest / Jay Miller

Expansion and exodus. Making the world whole again ; Of furs, buffalo, and trade ; A precarious balance ; The shedding of blood ; Indian rebellion / Richard White

Long threads. Native America at mid-century ; Embroiled in the white man's war ; Between violence and benevolence ; The closing in ; At the ebb point ; Glimmerings of sovereignty / Peter Nabokov

Twentieth century and beyond. Being a twentieth-century Indian ; The Indiana new deal ; Termination ; Sovereignty ; What Indians can teach us / Philip J. Deloria

Tribes by culture area and language family.