Author: Jake Page. Published by The Free Press, A Simon & Schuster Division, New York, USA, 2003, 1st Edition. Printed in USA. Good Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with minor cover, corner wear, clean inside, tight spine. 464 pages.
IN THE HANDS OF THE GREAT SPIRIT is a flowing, lucid, and satisfying... story of Indian nations, as it traces the history of North American Indigenous peoples from the Pleistocene era to the present.
The story of the American Indians has, until now, been told as a 500-year tragedy, a story of violent and fatal encounters with Europeans and their diseases, followed by steady retreat, defeat, and diminishment. Yet the true story begins much earlier, and its final recent chapter adds a major twist. Jake Page, one of the Southwest's most distinguished writers and a longtime student of Indian history and culture, tells a radically new story, thanks to an explosion of recent archaeological findings, the latest scholarship, and an exploration of Indian legends. Covering no less than 20,000 years, "In the Hands of the Great Spirit" will forever change how we think about the oldest and earliest Americans.
ISBN: 0684855763
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