Del Norte Public Library

In 11th Century North America, a Norse ship is attacked by Indians in the St. Lawrence River. The captain and the steersman escape to find refuge in a village of friendly Indians. The novel follows the Norsemen's adaptation to Indian life and the heart-wrenching parting when the time comes to go home.

Examines the life of the Indian princess Pocahontas and her contact with English settlers, especially John Smith.

Describes and explains the impact made by Europeans on the lives of various Native American tribes of North, Central, and South America, from the first contact in 1492 to the damage inflicted by Russians in the Aleutian Islands in the eighteenth century.

"Five hundred years ago, in November 1519, Hernando Cortés walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story--and the story of what happened afterwards--has been told many times, but always from the point of view of the Europeans. After all, we have been taught, it was the Europeans who held the pens. But the Native Americans were more intrigued by the Roman alphabet than the Spaniards...

The first encounters,conflict in the north woods, the plight of the pueblos, intruders on pacific shores.

Drawing on the words of contemporaries, the author creates a portrait of the amazing life of the daring and beautiful Indian princess and heroine

Examines the architecture, sculpture, clothes, goldwork and religious beliefs of the Aztec people.

The Colorado River region looms large in the history of the American West, vitally important in the designs and dreams of Euro-Americans since the first Spanish journey up the river in the sixteenth century. But as Natale A. Zappia argues in this expansive study, the Colorado River basin must be understood first as home to a complex Indigenous world. Through 300 years of western colonial settlement, Spaniards, Mexicans, and Americans all encountered...