Guest Author - Deborah Adams



This Day in North American Indian History by Phil Konstantin
For Bio on Phil Konstantin visit here.
The book published by Da Capo Press covers "Important Dates in the History of North America's Native Peoples for Every Calendar Day" as it states on the cover. Phil Konstantin has spent thousands of hours of research over a period of ten years to put together this day by day account of historical North American Indian events or events that have affected them. The thousands of entries in the book slip back all the way into the era of the Mayan's to present day pulling together documentation, translation and interpretations of historical events.

He also includes a very in-depth appendix on Tribal Names and their meanings as commonly known. An Alternative Tribal Names appendix is also offered along with North American Indian Calendars including Month (or season) Names and/or Moon Names by tribes noting that some groups within a tribe might or might not have a name for a moon or month and that there are many variations among peoples. There is also a very extensive index according to subjects for easily locating a certain event, location, etc . . .

I would definitely recommend this book for any person interested in American Indian/Native American events and history. This one book is a wealth of information that I am proud to have.

If you are interested in seeing what all This Day in North American Indian History has to offer please visit his site here.