CANDY MOULTON. Everyday Life Among the American Indians 1800 to 1900. Writer’s Digest Books. 273 pages; paperback, $19.99, amazon.com.
Everyday Life Among the American Indians corrects decades of misinformation with insightful, accurate scholarship, covering more than 500 tribes and including maps, illustrations, chronologies, and detailed overviews of day-to-day life. From the Louisiana Purchase to the Trail of Tears to Wounded Knee and beyond, including information on: tribal leadership, weaponry and warfare, food and shelter, tools and medicine, languages, customs, religions, and crime and punishment, and other historical details that are so often difficult to find.