Jerald T. Milanich Knihy

Based on the latest research findings, this is the moving story of the demise of one of the oldest of the American Indian peoples.

Great for professional archaeologists and general public.

In a pictorial record of Florida's ancient Indians, an artist's detailed paintings and drawings based on historical evidence and his own research re-create the appearance of the lifestyles and cultures of the state's pre-Columbian peoples.

When the conquistadors arrived in Florida as many as 350,000 native Americans lived there. Two and a half centuries later, Florida's Indians were gone. This text focuses on these native peoples and their lives, and attempts to explain what happened to them.

"The mountains are home to a hilarious collection of characters featured in the pages of the Catskill Tribune, an imaginary newspaper. A Bigfoot family, aliens, Vikings, and a host of local residents and tourists all find themselves in highly irregular circumstances... Readers will not want to miss the Tribune's coverage of the 'Roxit' saga, a vote by Robury residents to exit the United States and join Great Britain... A number of individuals who moved to the Catskills to find fame and fortune receive Tribune attention. They include a flakey West Coast astrologer; a financial consultant who predicts the stock market using photos of lightning bolts; and Brooklyn cowboy Christian Potok, whose mountain path is littered with failed business investments, notably Eskimo Heaven- a Catskill fat-freezing facility- and Sodom and Gomorrah- a family-oriented arcade"--from back cover

One of the great secrets of American history, more than 150 Spanish mission churches once dotted the landscape between modern Miami and the Chesapeake Bay. Built between the 1560s and 1760s, the missions were concentrated in what is now northern Florida and southern Georgia, but until recently their existence - and their influence on the region's native groups - has remained virtually undetected. The wood and thatch buildings burned or rotted away, and sweeping epidemics gradually wiped out the entire population of the Timucua, Guale and Apalachee Indians.