Title: Northern reader
Product review: I just completed the book, and wish I'd read the reviews from readers sooner. The errors definitely distracted from the overall experience. Unlike many of the reviewers, I purchased the book prior to a vacation to Arizona, thinking it might give me an insight into the history and flavour of the American Southwest. That it did - but to see the relationship between Dine/Navajo linked to Athapaskan-speaking people in Canada's north who fished for salmon and built totem poles .. 'Scuse me? The author mixed up the Pacific Northwest's Haida people with the inland Dene. In the chapter named 'Tombstone', the author mistakenly names Val Kilmer as an actor portraying Wyatt Earp; wrong again, Kilmer played Doc Holliday and Kurt Russell played Earp in the movie referred to. And these are just a couple of the more irritating and obvious mistakes.It's too bad, as the material is fascinating. However, I soon began to mistrust the information.
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