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Lewis Jon E.
The Mammoth Book Of Native Americans
The Mammoth Book Of Native Americans
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Binding: Paperback
Description: Native Americans make up less than one per cent of the total US population but represent half the nation's languages and cultures. Here in one grand sweep is the full story of Native American society culture and religion. Here is everything from the land - based spirituality of their early creation myths and the late rise of Indian Pride to the 88 uses to which the Sioux put the flesh and bones of the buffalo and the practice of berdache (men adopted as women). The book offers a chronological history of America's indigenous peoples. It covers their dramatic early entry into North America out of the now submerged continent of Beringia then in more recent times the 'forgotten wars of the 16th and 17th centuries which wiped many tribes from the face of the East Coast and finally describes to the last struggles of the Cheyenne and the Comanche. Celebrating these peoples way of life rather than focusing narrowly on the manner of their genocide it does not ignore uncomfortable facts of the Amerindian past - including the cannibalism believed to have been practised by some tribes and the Native Americans part in the decimation of North America's buffalo herds.
Title: The Mammoth Book Of Native Americans
Author(s): Lewis Jon E.
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
Barcode: 9781841195933
Pages: 608 Pages
Publication Date: 2/26/2004
Series: Mammoth Books
Category: Indigenous Peoples
Description: Native Americans make up less than one per cent of the total US population but represent half the nation's languages and cultures. Here in one grand sweep is the full story of Native American society culture and religion. Here is everything from the land - based spirituality of their early creation myths and the late rise of Indian Pride to the 88 uses to which the Sioux put the flesh and bones of the buffalo and the practice of berdache (men adopted as women). The book offers a chronological history of America's indigenous peoples. It covers their dramatic early entry into North America out of the now submerged continent of Beringia then in more recent times the 'forgotten wars of the 16th and 17th centuries which wiped many tribes from the face of the East Coast and finally describes to the last struggles of the Cheyenne and the Comanche. Celebrating these peoples way of life rather than focusing narrowly on the manner of their genocide it does not ignore uncomfortable facts of the Amerindian past - including the cannibalism believed to have been practised by some tribes and the Native Americans part in the decimation of North America's buffalo herds.
Title: The Mammoth Book Of Native Americans
Author(s): Lewis Jon E.
Publisher: Little Brown Book Group
Barcode: 9781841195933
Pages: 608 Pages
Publication Date: 2/26/2004
Series: Mammoth Books
Category: Indigenous Peoples