В книге, продолжающей серию "Энциклопедия "Исчезнувшие цивилизации", рассказывается о древнем индейском народе, проживавшем на территории Мексики и имевшем свое государство, о его богатой культуре.

Джон Мэнчип Уайт, известный историк, подробно описывает быт и обычаи племен североамериканских индейцев. Вы проследите нелегкий путь их кочевья, узнаете о том, как они охотились и возделывали землю, обучали и воспитывали детей, навсегда прощались с сородичами. Книга Уайта – неисчерпаемый источник для изучения культурного наследия народа, который, несмотря на все трудности, сумел сохранить свое национальное своеобразие.

The fascinating portrayal of the Cherokee nation, filled with Native American legend, lore, and religion -- a gripping American drama of power, politics, betrayal, and ambition

Once, and not all that long ago, Manhattan was Indian country, as it had been for thousands of years. Today, most people tracing descent to the first Manhattans live scattered along the many trails leading into their exile on small reservations in Ontario, Wisconsin, and Oklahoma. Four centuries ago, when Europeans like Henry Hudson began sailing to their shores, Manhattans and their kin held sole, sovereign sway over a homeland that took in a broad swath of the Mid-Atlantic seaboard. It stretched from Manhattan to the nearby mainland and adjacent parts of Long Island and the Jersey shore, across meadows and pine barrens along the coastal plain, and inland through forest-covered valleys. Above them rose ascending tiers of ridges extending from the Palisades, Ramapos, Hudson Highlands, Kittatinys, Shawangunks, and Taconics to the high peaks and plateaus of the Berkshire, Catskill, and Pocono uplands. Then as now, winds constantly blew moisture-laden storm clouds over these front ranges of the Appalachians, a mountain chain that runs like a spine across eastern North America from Acadia to Alabama.