The Oxford Handbook of American Indian History

The latest handbook from Oxford comes in three parts: a series of chronological chapters, a section based on regions and tribes and finally eleven thematic essays. These essays cover topics such as sexuality, population, religion, art and a piece on the Native American economies, Indians in the Marketplace. Each chapter is written by a different author, and eight of them appear to be members of the Indian nations themselves. No space has been given over to documents or statistics and there are no pictures, the only graphic representations being 20 maps scattered throughout the book. These are rather useful –...