Indians in American History: An Introduction

"So we went to school to copy, to imitate; not to exchange language and ideas, and not to develop the best traits that had come out of uncountable experiences of hundreds and thousands of years living upon this continent. Our annals, all-happenings of human import, were stored in our song and dance rituals, our history differing in that it was not stored in books, but in the living memory. So, while the white people had much to teach us, we had much to teach them, and what a school could have been established upon that idea!" - Luther Standing Bear, Land of the Spotted Eagle (1933) Illustrations in black and white (maps, photos, artist renderings).