This Reader from the Uncovering the Past series provides a comprehensive introduction to American Indian history.

• Over 60 primary documents allow the voices of natives to illuminate the American past
• Includes samples of native languages just above the full translations of particular texts
• Provides comprehensive introductions and headnotes, as well as images, an extensive bibliography, and suggestions for further research
• Includes such texts as a decoded Maya inscription, letters written during the French and Indian War on the distribution of small pox blankets, and a diatribe by General George Armstrong Custer shortly before he was killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn