The History of Western Philosophy

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by Bertrand Russell.

I don't know how many here are familiar with this book but I'm just finishing up reading this. I'm enjoying it and feel I'm benefiting from the ideas and facts presented in it. I'm not a philosophy student, just an interested average citizen.

But it occurred to me what a shame it is that we don't have a similar treatment of the history of Native American philosophers and their theories and how they developed and progressed from ancient times to present day.

Russell's book takes the reader through the history of western (which means Greek, European, some middle-eastern and a few mentions of the influence of asian) philosophies by describing the people who founded particular schools of thought and how those ideas were taken up and refuted in the following ages.

It seems unlikely that such a book could be written for Native American philosophy given the destruction of Native American works by religious europeans and such. But am I wrong are there good books similar to Russell's for Native American (The Really Western Philosophy I guess you could call it :) ) ?

Just hoping someone here might know.