The American Indian: An Overview

Robert L. Faherty is the managing editor of the 20-volume Encyclopedia of Indians of the Americas and of the single volume Dictionary of Indians of North America currently being published by Scholarly Press. He is working with the National Anthropology Archives of the Smithsonian Institution on a training program for Indian tribal historians and archivists. He previously served as associate editor with the new 15th edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica, for which he authored several articles, and as the assistant to the editor of the St. Louis Review. Active in library affairs, he is editor-in-chief of the Public Library Trustee.