Discusses the omnipresence of birds in Native American life. This book examines the complex and changeable influences of birds on the Native American world view.

Shepard Krech III is a professor of anthropology and director of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Brown University. He is a past president of the American Society for Ethnohistory and has been a fellow and trustee of the National Humanities Center. His many books include "The Ecological Indian" and "Encyclopedia of World Environmental History."