Encyclopedia of American Indian Issues Today: [2 volumes]

This essential reference examines the history, culture, and modern tribal concerns of American Indians in North America.

Despite the fact that 565 federally recognized tribes exist on the continent of North America, non-Native Americans typically know very little about the modern world of American Indians. In a few instances, the uneasy coexistence of the two cultures has served to create controversy, such as fake Indians fraudulently leveraging ethnicity-based benefits, U.S. officials dispo...