NATIVE NORTH AMERICAN: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE INDIGENOUS ARTS OF NORTH AMERICA. Art history and Native art. What is art?. Western discourses and Native American objects. Modes of appreciation: curiosity, specimen, artefact, and art. What is an Indian?. Clan, community, political structure, and art. Cosmology. The map of the cosmos. The nature of spiriti. Dreams and the vision quest. Shamanism. Art and the public celebration of power. The power of personal adornment. Creativity is our tradition: innovation and tradition in Native American art. Gender and the making of art. THE SOUTHWEST. The Southwest as a region. The ancient world. From the colonial era to the modern Pueblos. Navajo and Apache arts. THE EAST. The East as a region. Hunting cultures, burial practices, and Early woodlands art forms. Mississippian art and culture. The cataclysm of contact: The Southeast. The early contact period in the Northeast. Arts of the middle ground. Arts of self-adornment. THE WEST. Introduction. The Great Plains. The Intermontaine region-an artistic crossroads. The Far West: arts of California and the Great Basin. THE NORTH. Geography, environment, and language in the North. Sub-arctic clothing: art to honour and protect. The Artic. THE NORTHWEST COAST. Origins. The early contac period. Styles and techniques. Western connoisseurship and Northwest Coast art. Shamanism. Crest art. The potlatch. Art, commodity, and oral traditions. Northwest Coast art in the twentieth century. THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: TRENDS IN MODERN NATIVE ART. Questions of definition. Commoditization and contemporary art. Moments of beginning. The Souther Plains and the Kiowa Five. The Southwest and the **Studio**style. The display and marketing of American and Indian art: exhibitions, mural projects, and competitions. Native American modernisms, 1950-80. Institutional framework and modernisms in Canada. Postmodernism, installation, and other post-studio art. Notes. List of illustrations.