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Genre/Form: | Juvenile works Juvenile literature |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Starr, Frederick, 1858-1933. American Indians. Boston : D.C. Heath & Co., 1899, ©1898 (Norwood, Mass. : Norwood Press ; J.S. Cushing & Co. : Berwick & Smith) (OCoLC)609245066 |
Material Type: | Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Frederick Starr; D.C. Heath and Company.; Norwood Press.; J.S. Cushing & Co.; Berwick & Smith. |
OCLC Number: | 3102892 |
Notes: | With the exception of chapters XXXI and XXXII, the work is devoted to Indians north of Mexico. "This book about American Indians is intended as a reading book for boys and girls in school"--Preface. |
Description: | x, 227 pages, [2] folded leaves of plates : illustrations, color maps ; 19 cm. |
Contents: | Some general facts about Indians -- Houses -- Dress -- The baby and child -- Stories of Indians -- War -- Hunting and fishing -- The Camp-fire -- Sign language on the plains -- Picture writing -- Money -- Medicine men and secret societies -- Dances and ceremonials -- Burial and graves -- Mounds and their builders -- The Algonkins -- The Six Nations -- Story of Mary Jemison -- The Creeks -- The Pani -- The Cherokees -- George Catlin and his work -- The Sun Dance -- The Pueblos -- The Snake Dance -- Cliff dwellings and the ruins of the Southwest -- Tribes of the Northwest Coast -- Some Raven stories -- Totem posts -- Indians of California -- The Aztecs -- The Mayas and the ruined cities of Yucatan and Central America. |
Series Title: | Ethno-geographic reader, no. 2. |
Responsibility: | by Frederick Starr. |
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