How the World Moves: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family. By Peter Nabokov.

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How the World Moves: The Odyssey of an American Indian Family . By Peter Nabokov. (New York: Viking, 2015. xi + 550 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical essay, notes, index. $32.95.) Beginning with the stories told to Smithsonian Institution anthropologists by Acoma Pueblo Indian Edward Proctor Hunt—also known as Day Break, Big Snake, and Dad Hunt—in 1928, Peter Nabokov’s How the World Moves focuses on an American Indian family’s movement through a time of transition not only for them but also for American Indians in general and New Mexico and the western United States as a whole. Though the book extends through the death of Hunt’s son, Wilbert, in 2007, the bulk … steven.danver{at}waldenu.edu