Today, some two million American Indians inhabit the United States, less than one percent of the nation's population. Their origins have always been viewed from a 500-year-old perspective-from the point of view of the Europeans who 'discovered' the New World. Yet the true story of the American Indians begins some seventeen thousand years ago-and it is past due for a telling that shows Indians as they are, rather than as westerners wish them to be.
Recent archaeological findings, newly discovered written accounts, and never-before-published records have contributed to a whole new understanding of our country's oldest ancestors. Drawing upon the latest research, as well as his own personal experience living among the Hopi tribes, acclaimed author and former Natural History magazine editor Jake Page covers all aspects of Indian life throughout the ages. From the Pleistocene era to Custer's Last Stand, the Trail of Tears to the Indian Civil Rights Act, the establishment of reservations to the negotiation of casino property, In the Hands of the Great Spirit reveals the astonishing endurance of a group of people whose experience is as varied as the world is old.
Bowdre and his half-Hopi girlfriend find themselves at the Denver Museum's Desert Research Station, an outpost of gossiping, back-biting scientists. When a corpse turns up in Skeleton Canyon, Bowdre discovers that the murdered woman was not only a scientist but also a special FBI agent and the former girlfriend of an eccentric snake-keeper. The unraveling of the murder's secret uncovers an international network smuggling priceless Aztec artifacts out of Mexico. Bowdre lands neck-deep in a weird situation that just keeps getting weirder.
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