Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia

This is a fascinating three-volume set that looks at Native Americans in each of the fifty states; how Native Americans affected each state/region; and how the state influenced the native societies/culture within each state. The introduction to the set perhaps states its aim best: “[T]he state-based perspective contained in these volumes rectifies a glaring omission in approaches to North American Indian history while offering a more in-depth, nuanced evaluation of smaller locales and processes often missing in traditional studies” (p. xv).

Daniel Murphee, associate professor of history at the University of Central Florida and editor of this set, pulled together...