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Many wrong facts
I suspected from the promotional material I received that this book would have errors, but since I could look at it on a trial basis I ordered it. I had it for ten minutes before sending it back. It has many nice illustrations and photos and is a handsome book. It mentions many large, well known tribes and includes an unusual number of small,obscure, almost non-existent tribes, but imagine my shock and disbelief when I tried to look up my own two tribes, Osage, and Omaha, and they were NOT in the book. These are two Federally recognized tribes with long established reservations, not to mention distinctive and unusual histories. The map of reservations misrepresents the Osage reservation. I was so amazed and angry that I did not do an in depth inspection of the material in the book but I suspect there are many, many, errors and misleading information. I don't recommend this at all.There are many fine books on tribes out there which are probably much more accurate than this. This would make a handsome "coffee table book".
November 2010 · Books