Branam, Harold. "Journey to the Sky."

In Masterplots II: American Fiction Series, edited by Frank N. Magill.

Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 1986.

This article analyzes Highwater's novel Journey to the Sky, which deals with two nineteenth-century white explorers who gain an appreciation for Mayan civilization.

Highwater, Jamake. Native Land:Sagas of the Indian Americas. Boston: Little, Brown, 1986. This companion volume to the public television program "Native Land" introduces the historic civilizations of Native Americans and is excellent background reading for Highwater's novels.

——. The Primal Mind: Vision and Reality in Indian America. New York: Harper & Row, 1981. This scholarly, philosophical work is Highwater's most thorough exposition of the Native American view of reality. It was the basis for the 1985 PBS award-winning documentary "The Primal Mind."

Marriott, Alice, and Carol K. Rachlin.

American Indian Mythology. New York: New American Library, 1968. This book is one of the...