Native American Crafts » Native American Crafts (Books) http://native-american-crafts.com Native-American-Crafts.com Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:13:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Native American Designs Knitting & Crochet Patterns http://native-american-crafts.com/native-american-designs-knitting-crochet-patterns/ http://native-american-crafts.com/native-american-designs-knitting-crochet-patterns/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:48:10 +0000 Blogmaster http://native-american-crafts.com/native-american-designs-knitting-crochet-patterns/

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Knit or crochet 138 unique gifts to give away or keep them for yourself! The cover shows all 33 Native American designs that are included in this book. This book also includes written instructions on how to read and use it’s graphs/ charts to make knitted or crochet wash/ face/ dish cloths, bath mats, place mats, throw pillows and blankets of all sizes. These graphs can also be used for cross stitch, plastic canvas, beading and/or anything else that needs or uses a graph.

Native American Designs Knitting & Crochet Patterns

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A Kid’s Guide to Native American History: More than 50 Activities http://native-american-crafts.com/a-kids-guide-to-native-american-history-more-than-50-activities/ http://native-american-crafts.com/a-kids-guide-to-native-american-history-more-than-50-activities/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:48:32 +0000 Blogmaster http://native-american-crafts.com/a-kids-guide-to-native-american-history-more-than-50-activities/

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Hands-on activities, games, and crafts introduce children to the diversity of Native American cultures and teach them about the people, experiences, and events that have helped shape America, past and present. Nine geographical areas cover a variety of communities like the Mohawk in the Northeast, Ojibway in the Midwest, Shoshone in the Great Basin, Apache in the Southwest, Yupik in Alaska, and Native Hawaiians, among others. Lives of historical and contemporary notable individuals like Chief Joseph and Maria Tallchief are featured, and the book is packed with a variety of topics like first encounters with Europeans, Indian removal, Mohawk sky walkers, and Navajo code talkers. Readers travel Native America through activities that highlight the arts, games, food, clothing, and unique celebrations, language, and life ways of various nations. Kids can make Haudensaunee corn husk dolls, play Washoe stone jacks, design Inupiat sun goggles, or create a Hawaiian Ma’o-hauhele bag. A time line, glossary, and recommendations for Web sites, books, movies, and museums round out this multicultural guide.

A Kid’s Guide to Native American History: More than 50 Activities

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Sioux Quill and Beadwork: Designs and Techniques http://native-american-crafts.com/sioux-quill-and-beadwork-designs-and-techniques/ http://native-american-crafts.com/sioux-quill-and-beadwork-designs-and-techniques/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:48:04 +0000 Blogmaster http://native-american-crafts.com/sioux-quill-and-beadwork-designs-and-techniques/

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In-depth guide to ancient Native American crafts focuses on the techniques of the western Sioux. Explanations of techniques involved in quillwork, including dyeing and sewing, beadwork methods. More than 80 photographs and drawings depict handsome motifs on articles of clothing including vests, shirts, robes, dresses, leggings, moccasins, blankets, saddlebags, and shields.

Sioux Quill and Beadwork: Designs and Techniques

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Keepers of the Night: Native American Stories and Nocturnal Activities for Children http://native-american-crafts.com/keepers-of-the-night-native-american-stories-and-nocturnal-activities-for-children/ http://native-american-crafts.com/keepers-of-the-night-native-american-stories-and-nocturnal-activities-for-children/#comments Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:49:05 +0000 Blogmaster http://native-american-crafts.com/keepers-of-the-night-native-american-stories-and-nocturnal-activities-for-children/

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Night is more than just a period of time between sunset and sunrise. It is another world, fascinating and mysterious to children curious about the night and its nocturnal inhabitants. In Native cultures mighttime is a crucial part of the Great Circle and balance in the universe, and Keepers of the Night features Native wisdom to help young people learn valuable lessons about the natural world.

In the tradition of the best-selling Keepers of the Earth and Keepers of the Animals, this book offers eight carefully selected Native North American stories. Field-tested, hands-on activities include nighttime observational activities and walks to teach sensory awareness, puppet shows to teach understanding of how nocturnal animals live, stargazing to understand constellations and the myths and legends surrounding them, campfire talks that relate a sense of being a part of the Great Circle, and traditional dances—such as one to celebrate the bear, a symbol of courage—to enjoy and learn their significance.

Perfect for anyone teaching children about nature and the outdoors, Keepers of the Night offers unique ideas about understanding the natural world—by looking at night.

Keepers of the Night: Native American Stories and Nocturnal Activities for Children

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Living Like Indians: A Treasury of North American Indian Crafts, Games and Activities http://native-american-crafts.com/living-like-indians-a-treasury-of-north-american-indian-crafts-games-and-activities/ http://native-american-crafts.com/living-like-indians-a-treasury-of-north-american-indian-crafts-games-and-activities/#comments Mon, 05 Dec 2011 17:48:11 +0000 Blogmaster http://native-american-crafts.com/living-like-indians-a-treasury-of-north-american-indian-crafts-games-and-activities/

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Profusely illustrated guide leads would-be braves on challenging adventures of exploration, voyaging, tracking and trailing. Includes much valuable information on observing wildlife, cooking, conservation, canoeing, watercraft, water sports, field games, signalling, and storytelling. Excellent pointers on safety and first aid measures stressed throughout. For camp counselors, teachers, church groups, amateur naturalist, parents.

Living Like Indians: A Treasury of North American Indian Crafts, Games and Activities

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Handbook of Native American Mythology http://native-american-crafts.com/handbook-of-native-american-mythology/ http://native-american-crafts.com/handbook-of-native-american-mythology/#comments Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:48:29 +0000 Blogmaster http://native-american-crafts.com/handbook-of-native-american-mythology/

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This revealing work introduces readers to the mythologies of Native Americans from the United States to the Arctic Circle-a rich, complex, and diverse body of lore, which remains less widely known than mythologies of other peoples and places.
In thematic chapters and encyclopedia-style entries, Handbook of Native American Mythology examines the characters and deities, rituals, sacred locations and objects, concepts, and stories that define mythological cultures of various indigenous peoples. By tracing the traditions as far back as possible and following their evolution from generation to generation, Handbook of Native American Mythology offers a unique perspective on Native American history, culture, and values. It also shows how central these traditions are to contemporary Native American life, including the continuing struggle for land rights, economic parity, and repatriation of cultural property.
With more than 40 photographs, illustrations, and maps, here is the most comprehensive and accessible introduction to the mythological heritage of Native North Americans available in one volume.

Handbook of Native American Mythology

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Arts and Crafts of the Native Americans http://native-american-crafts.com/arts-and-crafts-of-the-native-americans/ http://native-american-crafts.com/arts-and-crafts-of-the-native-americans/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 22:48:37 +0000 Blogmaster http://native-american-crafts.com/arts-and-crafts-of-the-native-americans/

Arts and Crafts of the Native Americans

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The Tried and the True: Native American Women Confronting Colonization http://native-american-crafts.com/the-tried-and-the-true-native-american-women-confronting-colonization/ http://native-american-crafts.com/the-tried-and-the-true-native-american-women-confronting-colonization/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:48:16 +0000 Blogmaster http://native-american-crafts.com/the-tried-and-the-true-native-american-women-confronting-colonization/

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The first of the women we now call Native American were among the prehistoric nomads who crossed a land bridge between Asia and North America 40,000 years ago. Over centuries, these humans formed larger bands, and eventually farming villages and even larger units, the seeds of the many tribes and nations that we call Indians or Native Americans.
In most of these cultures, women held positions of honor in the community. John Demos looks at four Native American groups–the Puebloans of the North American Southwest, the Iroquois of the Northeast woodlands, the fur-trading tribes of the central Great Lakes region, and the Cherokees of the interior Southeast–and explores the possibilities open to women and how colonization by Europeans forever changed their lives.
In many Indian tribes, property passed through the female line, from mothers to daughters to granddaughters, giving women considerable power and influence through the link to their clan. Women often held the primary responsibility for farming, craft production, and even house construction or boat building. Behind this broad array of roles and duties lay a fundamental respect for women as women. In startling contrast to the premodern European view, Native American cultures supported a balanced view of the sexes. Men were considered superior in some ways, women in others, and both were necessary to the survival of the group.
Contact with European explorers and missionaries, the effects of the American Revolution, and the new United States government’s policies toward Native American cultures irrevocably transformed every tribe. As a result Native American culture declined and women in particular lost opportunities, influence, and status that had formerly belong to them.
But The Tried and the True is not only a story of decline. John Demos looks at the full range of Native American women’s experiences and finds that words like adaptation, recovery, and survival also apply. These first American women laid the foundation for future generations and began a struggle for equality and respect that continues today.

The Tried and the True: Native American Women Confronting Colonization

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Navaho Weaving: Its Technic and History http://native-american-crafts.com/navaho-weaving-its-technic-and-history/ http://native-american-crafts.com/navaho-weaving-its-technic-and-history/#comments Wed, 09 Nov 2011 20:48:13 +0000 Blogmaster http://native-american-crafts.com/navaho-weaving-its-technic-and-history/

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First published in 1934

Detailed and comprehensive study of the techniques of primitive weaving, from the building of the loom with materials at hand to the cleaning, carding and handling the raw wool from the sheared sheep

It is a remarkable accounting of a primitive people developing a most sophisticated skill.

At the time this book was first published in 1934, no non-Navajo Indian or Whiteman had ever developed the ability so beautifully displayed in this extraordinary art form.

No book has ever so carefully described this most ancient of crafts. Heavily illustrated. 7 color plates of masterpieces. Bibliography. Index. 460 pages. Soft cover only.

Navaho Weaving: Its Technic and History

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The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore http://native-american-crafts.com/the-book-of-indian-crafts-and-indian-lore/ http://native-american-crafts.com/the-book-of-indian-crafts-and-indian-lore/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2011 03:50:33 +0000 Blogmaster http://native-american-crafts.com/the-book-of-indian-crafts-and-indian-lore/

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A treasury of authentic details, including the practical and symbolic uses of shields, drums, tipis, and other items. In addition, numerous well-illustrated projects include patterns for making clothing, tipis, wigwams, bows, and arrows, numerous methods of fire-building, instructions for games, plus recreating ritual events. 30 photos, over 100 line drawings and diagrams. Bibliography. Index.

The Book of Indian Crafts and Indian Lore

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