Detailed description This Reader from the Uncovering the Past series provides a comprehensive introduction to American Indian history. * Over 60 primary documents allow the voices of natives to illuminate the American past * Includes samples of native languages just above the full translations of particular texts * Provides comprehensive introductions and headnotes, as well as images, an extensive bibliography, and suggestions for further research * Includes such texts as a decoded Maya inscription, letters written during the French and Indian War on the distribution of small pox blankets, and a diatribe by General George Armstrong Custer shortly before he was killed at the Battle of the Little Big Horn
