DONALD FIXICO is Distinguished Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University. He is the author of numerous articles and several books including Termination and Relocation: Federal Indian Policy, 1945-1960 (1986), The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century American Capitalism and Tribal Natural Resources (1998), The Urban Indian Experience in America (2000), and The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: Traditional Knowledge and American Indian Studies (2003).

[F]or students in middle and high school and general readers, shows what life was really like for ordinary people….[t]hroughout history.

• PrefaceIntroductionChronologyDomestic Life, Family, Women's Roles and SexualityEconomic Life, Rural, Urban, Taxation, Trade and TransportationIntellectual Life, Language, Oral Tradition and EducationMaterial Life, Clothing, Food, and HousingPolitical Life, Government, Social Structure, Warfare, and Tribal LawRecreational Life, Sports, and OutdoorsReligious Life, Deities, Creeds, Rituals and MoralityArt, Artifacts, Music and Fine Art PerformanceLiterature and Media of American IndiansNature, Environment, Home Spaces and ResourcesIndian Humor Then and NowBingos, Casinos and Indian GamingHealth, Medicine and CuresBeing Indian in the Twentieth CenturyGlossaryFurther readings

DONALD FIXICO is Distinguished Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University. He is the author of numerous articles and several books including Termination and Relocation: Federal Indian Policy, 1945-1960 (1986), The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century American Capitalism and Tribal Natural Resources (1998), The Urban Indian Experience in America (2000), and The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: Traditional Knowledge and American Indian Studies (2003).

[F]or students in middle and high school and general readers, shows what life was really like for ordinary people….[t]hroughout history.

• PrefaceIntroductionChronologyDomestic Life, Family, Women's Roles and SexualityEconomic Life, Rural, Urban, Taxation, Trade and TransportationIntellectual Life, Language, Oral Tradition and EducationMaterial Life, Clothing, Food, and HousingPolitical Life, Government, Social Structure, Warfare, and Tribal LawRecreational Life, Sports, and OutdoorsReligious Life, Deities, Creeds, Rituals and MoralityArt, Artifacts, Music and Fine Art PerformanceLiterature and Media of American IndiansNature, Environment, Home Spaces and ResourcesIndian Humor Then and NowBingos, Casinos and Indian GamingHealth, Medicine and CuresBeing Indian in the Twentieth CenturyGlossaryFurther readings

DONALD FIXICO is Distinguished Foundation Professor of History at Arizona State University. He is the author of numerous articles and several books including Termination and Relocation: Federal Indian Policy, 1945-1960 (1986), The Invasion of Indian Country in the Twentieth Century American Capitalism and Tribal Natural Resources (1998), The Urban Indian Experience in America (2000), and The American Indian Mind in a Linear World: Traditional Knowledge and American Indian Studies (2003).

[F]or students in middle and high school and general readers, shows what life was really like for ordinary people….[t]hroughout history.

• PrefaceIntroductionChronologyDomestic Life, Family, Women's Roles and SexualityEconomic Life, Rural, Urban, Taxation, Trade and TransportationIntellectual Life, Language, Oral Tradition and EducationMaterial Life, Clothing, Food, and HousingPolitical Life, Government, Social Structure, Warfare, and Tribal LawRecreational Life, Sports, and OutdoorsReligious Life, Deities, Creeds, Rituals and MoralityArt, Artifacts, Music and Fine Art PerformanceLiterature and Media of American IndiansNature, Environment, Home Spaces and ResourcesIndian Humor Then and NowBingos, Casinos and Indian GamingHealth, Medicine and CuresBeing Indian in the Twentieth CenturyGlossaryFurther readings