First Peoples distinctive approach to American Indian history has earned praise and admiration from its users. Created to fill the significant need for a survey text that acknowledges the diversity of Native peoples, respected scholar Colin G. Calloway provides a solid course foundation that still allows instructors to emphasize selected topics of interest to them and their students. The signature format of First Peoples strikes the ideal balance between primary and secondary source material, combining narrative, written documents, and visual documents in each chapter.

""A remarkable achievement. Colin Calloway illustrates through Native art and words the views, beliefs, policies and lifestyles that characterized a myriad of individual nations and groups. In First Peoples, the Indian peoples' many and rich histories come alive.""

-- James E. Sherow, Kansas State University



""First Peoples offers a balanced look at a difficult and complex past and tells the story of Native-U.S. relations with sophistication and subtlety.""

-- José Antonio Brandão, Western Michigan University