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The Cultures of native North Americans, general editor, Christian F. Feest ; contributors, Cora Bender ... [and others]

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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The Cultures of native North Americans

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general editor, Christian F. Feest ; contributors, Cora Bender ... [and others]

The origin and past of indigenous North America. "Indians?" ; Languages and writing systems ; The "Indians" and ourselves ; The old New World : creation and knowledge ; The new peoples ; The Great White Father ; This land is your land, this land is my land ... ; On the warparth ; Administered Indians : the Indian Bureau ; Nations and citizens ; In the shadow of the cross ; A hard schooling ; Red Jacket and the missionary -- Arctic. Arctic Ocean and foggy coast : a cold home ; Between ocean and tundra ; Female survival arts ; Igloo and qasgiq : houses and their inhabitants ; Human and nonhuman beings ; Soapstone, ivory, wood : the arts of the Arctic ; The Aleut : between the continents ; The Yupik : salmon fishing in transition ; Inuit : roads toward autonomy ; The rise and fall of the fur trade -- Subarctic. In the northern forests ; Hunting for a living : between feast and famine ; Of bones and dreams ; Soft gold ; Scattered survival, communal affluence ; Moccasin, tobaggan, and snowshoe ; "The most precious tree of the Northwest" ; Kutchin : border lands ; Around Great Slave Lake ; Cree : hunters and bureaucrats -- Northeast. The forests of the Northeast ; Burial mounds and their builders ; Unequal neighbors ; The settler and the princess ; Tecumseh, the prophet's brother ; Between wood, water, and clearing ; From longhouse and wigwam ; Love and marriage ; Body art ; Thunderbirds and underwater panthers ; Totems and medicine society : the Ojibwa ; Scalp, stake, and adoption ; The longhouse and its residents : the Iroquois ; Sagamores and hieroglyphs : the Micmac ; The lost country : the Delaware --Southeast. Swamp forests and red earth ; Temple mounds and towns ; Civilization and tears ; Town fields and deer hunting ; White and red ; A life of avoidances ; Body painting and ruffled shirts ; Green corn and world renewal ; Princes of Florida : the Calusa ; In the shadows of the Great Sun : the Natchez ; The Cherokee : beloved men and raven mockers ; Guerrillas in Florida : the Seminole -- Prairies and plains. On the Great Plains ; Grasslands and cornfields ; Paris of the prairies ; Tipi and earth lodge ; Men's worlds : woman's worlds ; War : a metter of honor ; Dog Soldiers and Buffalo Cow Women ; The mysterious in the world ; First Man and the Okipa ceremony of the Mandan ; The morning star sacrifice ; "Great Sun Power! I gove you my life today" ; Seven in a circle ; The death of Sitting Bull ; Sitting Bull replies ; The lords of the southern Plains and their shrinking land -- Plateau. Fishing for salmon and hunting bison ; The big net : "Indian giving" and democracy ; ...and water boils in the basket ; Seven Drums ; The Thompson are called Nlaka'pamux again ; Horsemen, warriors, and strategies ; Chief Joseph : thunder rolling over the mountains -- Northwest coast. The northern rainforest ; Salmon and whale ; The world is a house ; Rank and name ; Maquinna : a diplomat on dangerous shores ; Of trade and war ; The Chinook Peoples : traders along the Columbia River ; Potlatch feasts ; Dream of twins ; The Kwakiutl, or Kwakwaka'wakw ; Light, spirits, and thunderbirds ; Wintertime, cannibal time ; Art and craftsmanship ; The Tsimshian : artists and visionaries -- Great Basin. The grass hut people ; The history of people without history ; Between abundance and famine : the year in the Great Basin ; Paths of life ; Toward civilization : Sarah Winnemucca ; Brother Coyote, Father Wolf, and the sung land --California. Between mountains and ocean ; Salvation and suffering ; Gold rush and bloodshed ; The land of the acorn eaters and fishers ; Dreams of wealth : the Yurok and their neighbors ; The tribelets of the west ; Dream helpers and world renewal ; Living diversity : the Pomo people ; Woven dreams : the magic of baskets ; Old Man Coyote and his world ; Mariners and rock painters : the Chumash peoples ; :America's last savage" -- Southwest. The living desert : the Southwest in the imagination of its inhabitants ; Ceramics, canals, and kivas ; "Cactus people" and "foot-sole foreigners" ; War and peace in the "land of enchantment" ; Red earth, green fields of corn ; Cooperation between the sexes : hunting and gathering in the Southwest ; No two pueblos are alike ; The girl who was stolen by a Navajo ; The balanced cosmos : religion and ritual in the pueblos ; Messengers of the gods, toys, and crafts : kachinas and clowns ; Prayers in clay ; A people with vision : the Hopi of the three mesas ; Dreamers, warriors, ferrymen : the Mohave ; River people and desert people : the Pima and Papago ; Brewers of beer and protectors of God : the Tarahumara ; From herdsmen to marines : the Navajo ; Holy people and healing images ; Weaving and silversmithing ; Raiding and old wives' tales : the Apache ; Pleasure and promise ; Geronimo, scourge and of the Southwest -- The present and future of indigenous North America. The last of the Mohicans? ; Who is an "Indian?" ; Indians of all nations, unite! ; From smoke signals to the Internet : voices from "Indian country" ; The new Indian wars ; "As long as the sun shall shine ..." ; Bingo! ; "Indian time" -- Appendix: Indigenous peoples and languages of North America