Native American Testimony: A Chronicle of Indian-White Relations from Prophecy to the Present

. Penguin Books, $15.95 (496pp) ISBN 978-0-14-012986-1

Anthropologist Nabokov reorganizes and expands his 1978 book of the same title, a compelling alternative view of U.S. history from the Native American point of view. Photos. (Nov.)

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