This book is filled with photographs showing pow-wows and dance regalia over the past 100 years, accompanied by written histories and first-hand accounts. Numerous pen and ink drawings illustrate many of the items worn with pow-wow costumes, including ifnormation on how they are made. Dancers, craftworekrs and historians wills tudy these pages with a magnifying glass to learn more details about the American continent's pow-wows.

Adolf Hungry Wolf has written over 50 books about Native cultures, outdoor living, travel and railroad history. He has studied Native ways since arriving as a boy from Europe. He has lived among the Blackfoot for decades. He married into the Blackfoot tribe and raised his family in the mountains of British Columbia. He spends his time between British Columbia and Cuba.