The Native Tribes of North and South America by Charles Browne is an iconic book that marked a milestone in American literature on the subject and is translated into Greek for the first time. It was first published in 1853 and vividly and impartially describes the history of all indigenous tribes of North and South America, from the time of the first colonization of the Western Hemisphere by Europeans until the mid-19th century. With a lively spirit of the great civilization of the ancient inhabitants of America that was lost, the author gathers in a documentary work rich historical and ethnographic material from historical sources and testimonies for perhaps one of the most fascinating chapters in the history of humanity.

The fifth book is dedicated to the Indians of South America, from the peaceful inhabitants of the Caribbean Islands to the terrifying cannibals of the Caribs, and from the glorious Empire of the Incas and their conquest by a handful of adventurers led by Pizarro, to the proud Araucanians of Chile, who managed to stop the armies of the Spaniards and remain the only independent indigenous nation in the entire Western Hemisphere. Close to them, Browne describes the cannibals of the Amazon, the primitive tribes of Patagonia, and the inhabitants of the Pampas in Argentina, who were transformed into true centaurs by the arrival of horses from the Old World.