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Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Describes how people harvested plants for food and medicine and provides background, step-by step instructions, and detailed diagrams for crafting tools, shelter, clothing, and other devices with the native materials and techniques.
Author
Publisher
Lyons Press
Language
English
Description
Native American Crafts and Skills is an excellent introduction to the study of Native American crafts and outdoor skills. This book not only describes the skills Natvie Americans have cultivated over hundreds of years, but explains in step-by-step detail, through over 200 illustrations by the author himself, how to create all kinds of Native American handiwork.
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
1954
Language
English
Description
Enhanced by 51 illustrations, this eye-opening work tells how Native Americans made fire, teepees, bark houses, canoes, war bonnets, animal traps, fishhooks, arrowheads, wampum, masks, colors, rawhide, baskets, poetry, hats, and moccasins, plus how they courted, married, treated women, walked, bathed, smelled, cut their hair, told jokes, danced, sang, and much more.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
An introduction to Native Americans that describes the histories and cultures of tribes native to nine regions of the United States--which includes Alaska and Hawaii--and features instructions for activities, games, and craft projects.
Author
Series
Publisher
Nomad Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Explore how the first Americans, faced with varying climates in a vast land hundreds and thousands of years ago, developed everything we take for granted today: food supplies, shelter, clothing, religion, games, jewelry, transportation, communication, and more. Native Americans: Discover the History and Cultures of the First Americans uses hands-on activities to illuminate how the Native Americans survived and thrived by creating tools, culture, and...
17) Plains Indians
Author
Series
Publisher
World Book/Two-Can
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Describes the dwellings, family life, food, and customs of the Plains Indians. Includes related craft projects and activities.