North American Indian

Author

David Hamilton Murdoch

Call Number

• J 970.004 MURD (CEN)

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Edition

Rev. ed.

Publication Information

London ; New York : DK, 2005.

Physical Description

72 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm.

Summary

Presents a full-color illustrated examination of the customs and traditions of many North American Indians including those of the Great Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes region, far North, and more.

Notes

At head of title: Eyewitness.

"In association with the American Museum of Natural History."

Includes index.

Contents

• Peopling of the Americas
• A vast continent
• Medicine, the spirit world
• Far Northeast
• League of Iroquois
• Three sisters
• Mid-Atlantic Seaboard
• Ohio River Valley
• Western Great Lakes
• Settled Southeast
• "Five Civilized Tribes"
• Great Plains
• The Dakota (Sioux)
• Mandan, Hidatsa
• War and peace
• Sun dance
• High Plateau
• Great Basin
• Californian hunter-gatherers
• Stunning Southwest
• Pueblo peoples
• Apache, Navajo
• Papago, Pima
• Land of totem poles
• Art second to none
• Power of potlatch
• Northern hunters
• Frozen Arctic
• Modern times
• Did you know?
• Who's who?
• Glossary.