Amazing Native American History, The New York Public Library,: A Book of Answers for Kids, Liz Sonneborn, A Stonesong Press Book, New York, 1999.
This book has some excellent information, but I feel it is a bit too broad to cover everything it tries to cover. It starts with ancient Indians in the United States, including Mound Builders and cliff dwellings. It then skips to Mexico and ancient ruins there. It then goes through different regions of Native Americans and their history. Unfortunately it skips the mountain region as it skips from the Plains Indians to the Southwest Indians and then the California Indians. I like to hear about those form the intermountain area.
My other complaint is the way it is set up, presenting a question and then answering the question. In fact the best information I gleaned from this book was the side information in boxes. There I learned of women warriors and artists and city populations and many other fine things.
This book helps my continuing study of Native Americans but is a bit broad in some areas, and narrow in others.
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