Peopling of the Americas -- A vast continent -- Medicine and the spirit world -- The far Northeast -- The League of the Iroquois -- The three sisters -- The Mid-Atlantic Seaboard -- The Ohio River Valley -- Western Great Lakes -- The settled Southeast -- The "Five Civilized Tribes" -- The Great Plains -- The Dakota (Sioux) -- Mandan and Hidatsa -- War and peace -- The Sun Dance -- The high Plateau -- The Great Basin -- Californian hunter-gatherers -- The stunning Southwest -- The Pueblo peoples -- Apache and Navajo -- Papago and Pima -- Land of the totem poles -- Art second to none -- The power of potlatch -- Northern hunters -- The frozen Arctic -- Modern times