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A welcome addition to the extensive literature on Indian tribes within the national borders of the US. The Southern Paiute Indians (consisting of approximately 200 members) have been historically, culturally, and economically engulfed by the national society and more so by their neighbors, the Navaho and Hopi. One of these tribes has gained enormously in population and the other has sustained its continuity of village life over the long history of Paiute interaction with them. Bunte and Franklin show how the Southern Paiutes adapted to the extreme pressure of other cultures that impinge upon their small numbers. Nevertheless, a vestige of former Paiute culture exists, and the authors have deftly produced an ethnohistory containing a socioeconomic analysis; they reveal an awareness of intragroup values that will be of considerable assistance to scholars in the field of North American ethnology. The extensive bibliography contains works predominately devoted to Navaho and Hopi history and ethnography. Highly recommended for general readers and advanced students interested in the life, history, and contemporary circumstances of our Native Americans. -N. C. Greenberg, Western Michigan University