North American Indians
Cree and Montagnais aboriginal dwellings were conical or round wigwams covered with caribou or moose hides or a layer of moss over which birch bark was laid. Innu, living for the most part beyond birch woods, used the caribouskin tipi.
Throughout the book, Perdue and Green stress the great diversity of indigenous peoples in America, who spoke more than 400 different languages before the arrival of Europeans and whose ways of life varied according to the environments they ...
This is a comprehensive and thought-provoking approach to the history of the native peoples of North America (including Mexico and Canada) and their civilizations from earliest evidence to 1990.
... property provoked Creek retaliation. Instead of offering the Indians protection, the United States removed them as a military measure. Menominee Stockbridge Wyandot Delaware Sauk Stockbridge-Munsee Oneida Fallen Timbers Greenville 55.
An illustrated introduction to North American Indian tribes and their customs.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
From 1831 to 1837, George Catlin traveled extensively among the native peoples of North America—from the Muskogee and Miccosukee Creeks of the Southeast to the Lakota, Mandan, and Pawnee of the West, and from the Winnebagos and Menominees ...
Provides instructions for making models of things used by indigenous peoples of North America throughout the development of their thousand-year-old civilization.
The story of the North American Indian is a moving and fascinating one and this comprehensive account covers all aspects of a lifestyle so nearly lost to the modern world.
Written in an easy-to-read, narrative format, this volume provides the most comprehensive coverage of North American Indians from earliest evidence through 1990. It shows Indians as a people with history...
For the North American peoples, myths and legends were more than mere entertainment.
North American Indians: An Anthropological Perspective
This introduction to the North American Indian will have special appeal for readers interested in anthropology, Native American studies, sociology of minorities and American history. The book covers the full...
Illustrated in full color, with full-color & black-and-white photographs and maps. Each chapter of this striking survey of Native American life begins in a uniquely appropriate way: with a dramatic,...
An illustrated overview of the history, tradition, and customs of Native American peoples.
Provides instructions for making models of things used by indigenous peoples of North America throughout the development of their thousand-year-old civilization.
This book begins with the emergence of peoples in North America and traces their stories to the beginning of the early twenty-first century.