An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America graphic novels and the taste of the

and the taste of the wind all figure prominently in this intellectual tour de force that returns us to our senses and to the sensuous terrain that sustains us

there are more than five hundred federally recognized Indigenous nations comprising nearly three million people

was published by Michigan State University Press

this book—which accompanies an exhibition of the same title opening in August 2013 at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York—reveals how Anishinaabe (also known in the United States as Ojibwe or Chippewa) artists have expressed the deeply rooted spiritual and social dimensions of their relations with the Great Lakes region

An Infinity of Nations: How the Native New World Shaped Early North America graphic novels and the taste of theAn Infinity of Nations explores the formation and development of a Native New World in North America. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, indigenous peoples controlled the vast majority of the continent while European colonies of the Atlantic World were largely confined to the eastern seaboard. To be sure, Native North America experienced far reaching and radical change following contact with the peoples, things, and ideas that flowed inland