Touch the earth

Touch the Earth is a selection of statements and writing by North American Indians, chosen to illuminate the course of Indian history and the abiding values of Indian life. Together they recount the pain of the Indian as he watched the white man kill the wild herds and overrun the sacred lands of his ancestors. Mystified at first by the white man's ways, the Indian's tone gives way first to anger, then desperation and, finally, hopelessness. More than 50 pages of photographs, taken by the American photographer Edward S. Curtis in the early years of this century, complement the text.