Native America, Kenneth L. Feder
Native America, Kenneth L. Feder
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Native America
The Story of the First Peoples

Author: Kenneth L. Feder

Narrator: Adam Barr

Unabridged: 14 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/20/2026


Synopsis

Native America presents an infinitely surprising and fascinating deep history of the continent's Indigenous peoples. Kenneth Feder, a leading expert on Native American history and archaeology, draws on archaeological, historical, and cultural evidence to tell the ongoing story, more than 20,000 years in the making, of an incredibly resilient and diverse mixture of peoples, revealing how they have ingeniously adapted to the many changing environments of the continent, from the Arctic to the desert Southwest.

Native America introduces close to a hundred different peoples, each with their own language, economic and social system, and religious beliefs. We learn about hunters of enormous Ice Age beasts; people who raised stone toolmaking to the level of art; a Native American empire ruled by a king and queen, with a huge city at its center and colonies hundreds of miles away; a society that made the desert bloom by designing complex irrigation networks; brilliant architects who built fairy castles in sandstone cliffs; and artists who produced beautiful and moving petroglyphs and pictographs that reflect their deep thinking about history, the sacred, the land, and the sky.

Native America is not about peoples of the past, but vibrant, living ones with an epic history of genius and tenacity—a history that everyone should know.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sage on October 04, 2025

I saw this sitting in my local library just a few days after I had thought that I would love to know more about indigenous populations. This book did not disappoint! It is a fantastic overview of the archaeological elements of natives peoples from all around North America. I was pleasantly surprised......more

Goodreads review by Mary on January 31, 2026

Didn't completely finish. Non-Fiction scientific explanations of the timeline of when the native people inhabited North America. Very interesting facts.......more

Goodreads review by Trish on November 05, 2025

Have read a few different books about this subject. I did learn new information. I enjoyed all the details, data, and photos presented, but the bit of Indigenous history that occurred in northwest Connecticut was especially compelling as I grew up in Western Massachusetts on the Connecticut border -......more

Goodreads review by ezra on January 17, 2026

Thank you to NetGalley and Highbridge Audio for this ALC! “Native America: The Story of the First Peoples” is an incredibly riveting work by professor of archaeology Kenneth Feder, with the audiobook read by Adam Barr. It tells us of the stories and histories of many different American Indigenous cul......more

Goodreads review by Elysha on January 22, 2026

Native America is a comprehensive history of Native Americans, across North America. It goes from the initial peopling of North America and the multiple theories regarding this, goes into the various archaic cultures over the continent. The book then goes into the various groups over the continent a......more