1. The charts are intended to give a very broad overview of the coverage that each textbook gives to the Native American experience. First of all, only subjects that are related to the Native American experience are included in the chart. For example, every textbook covered the Mayflower Compact, which was not relevant to the relations between the Indians and the Pilgrims, so the Mayflower Compact was not included in the chart. Secondly, not every detail that is included in the charts is discussed in the section. For example, all of the European explorers are included in the chart, in order to illustrate which historical figures are generally covered and which are not, but each individual explorer was not discussed in the analysis. Finally, a subject that is marked with a N did not cover that subject, and a subject marked with a Y did cover the subject. However, one textbook may include one sentence on a subject while another textbook may include two pages on that same subject, but they would both be marked Y.
   
2. South American Indians, such as the Maya, did in fact have a sophisticated writing system. But as this writing system consisted of pictographs, the whites could not understand it, and therefore dismissed it.
   
3. Hopewell and Mississippi cultures
   
4. Anasazi and Hohokam
   
5. Algonquin and Iroquois
   
6. Five Civilized Tribes
   
7. Sioux, Mandans, Pawnees, Omahas, Kiowa, Comanche, Cheyenne, and Crow
   
8. Utes, Shoshones, and Paiutes
   
9. Nez Percés, Klamath, Yakima, and Flathead
   
10. Yokuts, Pomos, Wintuns
    
11. Pueblo (Hopi), Apaches, and Navajos
    
12. Aleuts and Athapascans
    
13. Inuit and Eskimos
    
14. Hakim's chapters are short relative to the chapters in the other textbooks.
    
15. Dennis Banks eventually became the best known of the AIM leaders, but he was not the sole founder of AIM. AIM was co-founded in 1968 by Clyde Bellecourt, Eddie Benton Banai, George Mitchell, and Dennis Banks.
    
16. As for the Washington, DC school system, I was not able to get enough information from school officials to warrant a conclusion. It was very difficult to get a hold of school officials, and when I did, they were not very willing to help me. The one thing they did do was send me a list of the textbooks they use. They use one standard textbook for each grade, but the remaining books on the list exclusively reflect the African-American experience. There were 25 textbooks representing African-American leaders, but no other minority groups were represented.

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