North, South, East, West: American Indians & the Natural World presents moving Native quotes & vibrant photographs of Native Americans to depict how they relate to the world around them. Striking color photographs of over 200 artifacts, never before published, from the Carnegie Museums outstanding American Indian collection give tangible expression to a rich heritage of belief & customs. Dr. Bol focuses on four groups: the Hopi of the Southwest, the Tlingit of the Northwest, the Lakota of the Plains, & the Iroquois Nations of the Northeast, & includes a section on urban Indians. Woven within the text is the acclamation that, even while outside pressures from Euro-Americans often have devastating effects on Indian society, these various Native groups still maintain their viable cultures in today's world with unbroken threads to their past.