Native Land: Sagas of the Indian Americas

by Jamake Highwater

Traces the rise and decline of the Olmecs, Maya, Incas, Aztecs, and the major tribes of North America and discusses the culture of each tribe

Genres: Native American

230 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1986

About the author

Jamake Highwater, born as Jackie Marks, and also known as Jay or J Marks (14 February 1931–June 3, 2001), was an American writer and journalist of eastern European Jewish ancestry.[1] From the late 1960s he claimed to be of Native American ancestry, specifically Cherokee. In that period, he published extensively under the name of Jamake Highwater. One version of his shifting story was that he had been adopted as a child and taken from his Indian home in Montana to grow up in a Greek or Armenian family in Los Angeles, California.