Everyday Life Among the American IndiansWriters will save hours of valuable research time and bring a richness and historical accuracy to their work as they reference the slice-of-life facts depicted for each of these major time periods. Each book contains descriptions of the period's food and clothes; customs and slang; occupations; common religious and political practices; and other historical details. |
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Aleuts American Indians animals Apaches Arctic areas Arikaras arrows attack bands bark baskets Battle beads bear became birth bison Bison Books blankets buckskin buffalo camp canoes ceremonies Cherokees Cheyenne chiefs Choctaw clan clothing Comanches corn Creek Crow culture Dakota Dance deceased deer Dress enemy feast feathers fighting fish girls hair harvested healers Hidatsa hides Hopi horses hunting Indian Territory Interior Plateau involved Iroquois killed Kiowas Lakota land Lincoln lived lodge Mandans marriage meat medicine moccasins National Archives Navajos Nebraska Press Nez Percé North Northern Northwest Coast Ojibwa Oklahoma Press painted Paiute placed Plains Indians Plains tribes plant Plateau Plateau Indians poles Prairies and Woodlands puberty Pueblo raid region reservation rituals River robes scalp Seminoles shells Shoshones Sioux skin sometimes Southeastern tribes Southwest sticks Tlingit tobacco trade treaty University of Nebraska village warriors West winter woman women wore woven