The Mammoth Book of Native Americans The story of America's original inhabitants in all its beauty,magic,truth and tragedy - Jon E. Lewis

Truth, tragedy and magic, the story of America's original inhabitants Native Americans make up less than one per cent of the total US population but represent half the nation's languages and cultures. Here, in one grand sweep, is the full story of Native American society, culture and religion. Here is everything from the land-based spirituality of their early creation myths and the late rise of Indian Pride, to the 88 uses to which the Sioux put the flesh and bones of the buffalo and the practice of berdache (men adopted as women).