• Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2019 September #2
  *Starred Review* This encyclopedia fills a gap in the availability of reliable information about indigenous peoples, providing comprehensive, current, detailed profiles of more than 160 indigenous tribes from eight regions of North America. It was produced under the aegis of expert consultants from each of those regions—experts who are not only members of Native communities but who are also professionally involved in the research, preservation, and documentation of indigenous matters. A thoughtful introduction by Ben Nighthorse Campbell establishes the tone and sets the record straight about myths and fallacies that make up most people's knowledge of Native Americans. The rest of the book sustains this view, highlighting without a shadow of a doubt the immense cultural diversity of Native peoples. Information is organized by geographic region and then alphabetically by tribal name. The main narrative covers history and geography as well as contemporary life. Insets include photographs of people engaged in all manner of daily and customary activities. Time lines and sidebars leave no doubt as to the violence done by settler colonial policies and the contributions of Native peoples to the country in times of war, as well as to art, music, and activism. In sum, this book should be part of every classroom and school library. Grades 5-8. Copyright 2019 Booklist Reviews.

AUTHOR: CYNTHIA O'BRIEN has written numerous nonfiction books for young readers, including works on aboriginal studies and a history of the American Indian during the 1800s. She lives in Ontario, not far from the Six Nations of the Grand River Reservation. REGIONAL CONSULTANTS: ARCTIC AND SUBARCTIC TRIBES: William Fitzhugh (Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, specializes in the peoples and cultures of the circumpolar Arctic); NORTHEAST AND SOUTHEAST TRIBES: Karenne Wood (member of the Monacan Indian Nation); PLAINS AND SOUTHWEST TRIBES: Theresa Lynn Fraizer (member of the Laguna, Hopi, and Chippewa tribes); GREAT BASIN TRIBES: Catherine Fowler (professor of anthropology emerita University of Nevada, expert on the Great Basin's Native poeples); PLATEAU TRIBES: Anton Treuer (White Earth Ojibwe Nation); PACIFIC NORTHWEST: Janine Ledford (Makah Indian Tribe); CALIFORNIA: Terria Smith (Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians). NATIVE STORIES EXPERT: Dan SaSuWeh Jones (Ponca Nation). GENERAL CONTENT EXPERTS: Herman J. Viola, Ph.D., curator emeritus with the National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution and an adopted member of the Crow Nation, is an author and authority on American Indian history and culture as well as the exploration of the American West. Mert Martens, Ph.D., is an education and social studies curriculum consultant and a Fulbright Fellow.