NATIVE AMERICA
"Long ago, America was their land. For thousands of years, the only inhabitants of the continent were Native Americans. They were descendants of Asians who crossed a land bridge to the northernmost part of America and eventually spread south. Then, beginning in 1492, Europeans arrived in America. Over the centuries, as a result of wars, policies, and diseases introduced by the newcomers, the Native. . . "

SACAGAWEA
"She is one of the most well- known, and unknown, figures in United States history. A river, two lakes, and four mountain peaks are named for her, but no one is certain how to pronounce or spell her name. Every child in the United States learns about Sacagawea (sa-CA-ga-we-a), but what does anyone actually know about her? We know for certain that in 1805 and 1806 she traveled with the Lewis and Clark. . . "

PLAINS INDIANS
"Imagine a time before cities, railroads, highways, and automobiles. Imagine a time when the vast grasslands of America's Great Plains rolled on for thousands of miles with nothing to disturb them but the hooves of buffalo, deer, antelope, and elk. Onto the Great Plains, thousands of years ago, walked small bands of hunters. Over time, their numbers grew. Different groups developed into different. . . "

AMERICA 1492
"The very first Americans were big-game hunters. They came from Asia and carried spears of bone and stone. They weren't searching for a new place to live. They were following the animals they hunted for a living. They stalked giant buffalo and huge woolly mammoths. In North America they found beavers as big as bears. But no jets roared through the skies, and no car horns honked. There were no towns. . . "

GRAND CANYON
"With layers of red, pink, purple, brown, green, gray, and yellow, the rocky walls of the Grand Canyon look like a box of melted crayons. No powerful cranes, noisy drills, or enormous shovels constructed the canyon. Instead, it was created by the mighty Colorado River. Of course, it had some helpers: small streams and tributaries, wind, rain, snow, and ice, as well as Earth's shifting tectonic plates."

NORTHWEST COAST PEOPLES
"Thousands of years ago, humans began to settle along the narrow strip of land that hugs that Pacific Coast from what is now southern Alaska to southern Oregon. It was a land of abundance. Fish and sea mammals crowded the ocean. In spring, salmon left their ocean homes to swim up streams, where they were easily caught. The nearby forests provided berries, meat and edible roots."

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

• Navajo (Native American Peoples). By D. L. Birchfield, Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2003.
• The Pueblo: Southwestern Potters (Blue Earth Books: America's First Peoples). By, Mary Englar, Blue Earth Books, 2003.
• Native Tribes of California and the Southwest. By Michael Johnson and Bill Yenne, World Almanac Library, 2004.
• People of the Southwest (Native Peoples, Native Lands). By Linda Thompson, Rourke Publishing, 2003.
• The Apache (Lifeways). By Raymond Bial, Marshall Cavendish, 2001.

ADULT BOOKS

• Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and Community in the Southwest Borderlands. By James Brooks, University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
• The Indian Slave Trade: The Rise of the English Empire in the American South, 1670-1717. By Allan Gallay, Yale University Press, 2003.
• The Pueblo Revolt : The Secret Rebellion That Drove the Spaniards Out of the Southwest. By David Roberts, Simon & Schuster, 2004.
• The Book of the Navajo. By Raymond Friday Locke, Mankind Publishing Company, 2002.
• Western Pueblo Identities: Regional Interaction, Migration, and Transformation. By Andrew I. Duff, University of Arizona Press, 2002.

WEBSITES

• The America West - Native Americans: www.americanwest.com/pages/indians.htm
• Native American Settlements in North America: www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/prehistory/settlements/index.shtml
• Smithsonian Native American Resources: www.si.edu/resource/faq/nmai/start.htm

COMMUNITY RESOURCES

• Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (DC):
  http://www.nmai.si.edu/