Southwestern Indian Designs Book

At first glance this book appears to be any ordinary Smithsonian level coffeetable book. It is not. It blends myth, legend, religion, archeology, climatology and sociology. It is as much a study in the material cultures of the Native American nations as it is a document on the resources that shaped the cultures as those cultures adapted to their environments. By no means does the book capture the diversity and complexity of Native American mythology and religion, but it does do a decent job of blending stories into the materials that have been left behind and preserved from those traditional generations. I found the segments on Great Lakes nations and Arctic peoples to be very compelling.