Alvin M. Josephy, Jr.
500 Nations: an illustrated history of North American Indians.
Hutchinson/Pimlico. 1995
It is a story of friendship, treachery, courage and war, beginning with Columbus in 1492 and ending after the massacre at Wounded Knee in 1890.
We meet men and women, heroes and villains through their own words: Massasoit, whose greeting to the Mayflower pilgrims – ‘Welcome, Englishmen’ – was given in their own language; Deganawida, known as the Peace Maker, whose Great Law laid the foundation for the confederacy among the five nations of the Iroquois; Sequoyah, inventor of the Cherokee alphabet; Tecumseh, the charismatic Shawnee leader; Satanta, who led the Kiowa resistance; Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce; Pocahontas, Cochise and Geronimo of the Apaches; Red Cloud, Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse of the Sioux…
Lavishly illustrated with 500 paintings, woodcuts, drawings, photographs, and Indian artefacts, this thrilling and beautiful book shows us the many worlds of North America’s Indians, as we have never seen them before.