ULTIMATE GUIDE TO “INDIAN COUNTRY:” Tim Giago, writing in the March 20 Native American Times, recommends “a hefty, 1,120 pages book named ‘Tiller’s Guide to Indian Country.’ The book was first published in 1996, but with the fast changes taking place in Indian country the second and expanded version came out in 2005. It was edited and compiled by Veronica Tiller, PhD, and a member of the Jicarilla Apache Tribe of New Mexico. Using websites and shoe leather, Tiller set out to publish the most comprehensive list of Indian tribes, nations, villages, pueblos, and rancherias ever put into one book. Pick any tribe in the United States or Alaska and if you want to know the size of the tribe, how many of its members have college degrees, what are its main sources of economy or what its basic language is, you will find it all in 'Tiller’s Guide to Indian Country.’ As a publisher of a newspaper for many years I found this book to be the bible of my business. Just helping my writers find the correct spelling of an Indian tribe can be most difficult because many of the tribes spell out their names in their own language. I would highly recommend it to anyone working in Indian affairs, to every high school and college on and off the Indian reservations of America, and to all public libraries. BowArrow Publishing Company of Albuquerque, N.M. publishes this book.” It’s distributed by the University of New Mexico Press. Cost is $199 per book or CD, $250 for the set. ISBN: 978-1-885931-04-7. FMI: UNM Press, 1-800-249-7737.

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