In a preface to his engrossing and eloquent work [in Many Smokes, Many Moons, Highwater] gives an example of fundamental differences in understanding between native Americans and whites. Subsequent chapters pinpoint historic and cultural events to express the seldom-heard Indian view…. Sad to say, it includes an almost unbroken account of whites' betrayals of a conquered people. (p. 65)

Jean F. Mercier, in Publishers Weekly (reprinted from the July 3, 1978, issue of Publishers Weekly by permission of the critic, published by R. R. Bowker Company, a Xerox company; copyright 1978 by Xerox Corporation), July 3, 1978.

The subtitle [of Many Smokes, Many Moons: A Chronology of American Indian History Through Indian Art] is misleading. Handsomely designed, this really consists [more] of archaeological, [than of] historical snippets…. A typical early sequence notes that the Pinto Basin culture, based on an economy of fish and shellfish, dominated the Far West around 7000 B.C.…. After 1492 the...