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The Native American Experience

Name: The Native American Experience
Author: Jay Wertz
ISBN: 9780233003122

by Jay Wertz

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Overview

Based in part on interviews with notable Native Americans-including Adam Fortunate Eagle, Johnny Bear Contreas, and Waneek Horn-Miller-and featuring removable facsimiles of rare documents from U.S. archives and private collections, this is a powerful you-are-there account of American history as seen through the eyes of the people who were here first. Readers will gain a whole new perspective on the past as they share the outlook of those who view the “discovery” of America as one of history's great tragedies.

Facsimile documents include:
An issue of The Cherokee Phoenix newspaper from 1828
A seventeenth century map of the New World President Lincoln's hand-written pardon of 38 Dakota warriors Top-secret Navajo Code Talker documents from the Second World War And much more!

Synopsis

The Native American Experience is a slip-cased, hardcover book with more than 200 full-color and black-and-white illustrations and 30 rare and newly researched removable facsimile documents of historical importance.

About the Author, Jay Wertz

Jay Wertz is the author of The Civil War Experience and the coauthor of Smithsonian’s Great Battles and Battlefields of the Civil War. He wrote and directed the television series on which the latter book is based. He lives in San Diego, California.