This superb, fully illustrated reference offers the most up-to-date and essential facts on the identity, kinships, locations, populations and cultural characteristics of some 400 separately identifiable peoples native to the North American continent, both living and extinct, from the Canadian Arctic to the Rio Grande.

Table of Contents

• Foreword
• Introduction
• Classification of Indian Languages
• Distribution of Cultures
• The Tribes
• Northeastern Woodlands
• Southeastern Woodlands
• Plains and Prairie
• Plateau
• Great Basin
• California
• Southwest
• Northwest Coast
• Subarctic
• Arctic
• The Indian Today
• Glossary
• Select Bibliography
• Museums
• Native Populations