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Indian New England Before the Mayflower
by Howard S. Russell
$19.95 (soft cover)
An extremely useful book which one returns to again and again as a reference work. Its scope is the broadest, taking in every aspect of Indian life as the early explorers and colonists found it, from personal appearance and characteristics to diet and agriculture, social organization and intertribal relations.

More great books on Native American topics:
Indians of the Northeast, by Luisa
$7.95 (soft cover)
This books presents a glimpse of the Native Americans and their story - how the members of the Six Nations reacted to the white man's arrival: their resistance to and assimilation with the culture of the Europeans; and the on-going struggle to preserve their own beliefs and lands, despite intervention from the government of the new nation.

Diary of King Philip's War, 1675-1676, by Church
$15.95 (soft cover)
This is the story of warfare: ambushes, providential escapes and breath-taking battles, which is written with all the immediacy and simplicity of folk art. Benjamin Church's diary of King Philip's War is one of the earliest and most graphic of American literature.

Spirit of the New England Tribes: Indian History and Folklore, by Simmons
$22.95 (soft cover)
Spanning three centuries, this collection traces the historical evolution of legends, folktales and traditions of four major Native American groups form their earliest encounters with European settlers to the present.

Manitou and Providence : Indians, Europeans and the Making of New England, 1500-1643, by Salisbury
$25.95 (soft cover)
Thoroughly researched, tightly argued, and crisply written, this now-classic work casts bright new light on a familiar scene.

Indian New England, 1624-1674, by Karr
$12.95 (soft cover)
Drawing from 22 sources written between 1524 and 1674, Karr has organized numerous excerpts topically to build a compelling picture of Native New England as chronicled by the explorers, soldiers and observers who made first contact.