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Through Indian Eyes: The Untold Story of Native American Peoples Editorial Review:
A fascinating look at our common history as the first Americans experienced it. Lavishly illustrated, with hundreds of photos, paintings, drawings, maps, original illustrations, and rare archival images. The story is amplified by memorable quotations from native people.
Customer Reviews:
Through Indian Eyes
Beautiful book, beautiful pictures and a world of information on Native Americans! Buy it, you'll love it!
A Keeper
I love this book. I've read and re-read it countless times and it never fails to capture my attention again and again. I think it's well written and set up very nicely.
Vital, honest, and beautiful perspective
Extemely well-done! I actually bought this in hopes of more information on various tribes, but what I serendipitiously got instead was the history of the Native American Indians in relation to colonization (not that there is plenty of culture-specific information). The photos and illustrations do more than serve their purpose in bringing the information to life. It is well-researched, well-collected, and well-organized. Plus, it looks abosolutely beautiful. I am almost tempted to say that it is biased toward Native Americans, but hey, they more than deserve it. The book goes over perspectives as well as facts and approaches as many different culture's experience as possible. Wonderful resource as well as an entertaining and informative read.
Missing Key Events
This book is good but I have problems with it. It is far too generalized and doesn't contain relevant details of important events.
In 1996 I began researching Native Americans/American Indians because I was aware of Indian traits from my family tree, one on my mother's side and one on my father's side. Since then, I have learned a few things that are not mentioned in this book, which I believe are significant enough to warrant mention. They are the first official "Thanksgiving" following a massacre of the Pequot in 1637 New England and the "Trail of Death" (Potawatomi) & "Trail of Tears" (Cherokee). Both of the latter were instigated following enactment of removal laws that started in the late 1820s.
The absence of these events, for me, casts doubt on the validity of the book's claim to be "The Untold Story of Native American Peoples".
Here is a quote from one of the websites I searched.
"The first official Thanksgiving wasn't a festive gathering of Indians and Pilgrims, but rather a celebration of the massacre of 700 Pequot men, women and children, an anthropologist says."
A good book on the subject
Reader's Digest produces good work when it comes to books of this kind on various subjects.
I enjoyed this book.
Well written. Nicely illustrated. A good source of information. Great for anyone who wishes a basic view on this subject.
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