Encyclopedia of Native American history, presented from 28000 BC to the 1900s. The timeline described is divided in these sections: prehistory, Mesoamerica and the Greater Southwest, the Mississippians and Hispaniola, European invasions, ecological revolutions, land cessions, the Reservation system, Indian activism. Includes maps and photographs. Chronicles the cultures and events of Native Americans in relation to world events. Discusses agriculture in Mesopotamia and Mexico, European colonization, expansion, and exploitation, New World medical advances, and Native contributions to the World War II Allied war effort.