This is the required textbook for the Contemporary Native American Art History course at SIUC. However this book doesn't really have anything to do with Native American artists, instead it is more of an anthropological approach to the art world which makes the art history course a little confusing at times.I never got this book when I ordered it, supposedly it got lost in the mail. I got my money back but I think that is the last time I order from Beedees books. I had to read the copy they had on reserve at the library here during my breaks. The material is extremely dry and it was really hard to concentrate on a certain topic.