Archive for the “Native American Crafts (Books)” Category
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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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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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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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In The Dream Seekers, Lee Irwin demonstrates the central importance of visionary dreams as sources of empowerment and innovation in Plains Indian religion.
Irwin draws on 350 visionary dreams from published and unpublished sources that span 150 years to describe the shared features of cosmology for twenty-three groups of Plains Indians. This comprehensive work is not a recital but an understandable exploration of the religious world of Plains Indians.
The different means of acquiring visions that are described include the spontaneous vision experience common among Plains Indian women and means such as stress, illness, social conflict, and mourning used by both men and women to obtain visions.
The Dream Seekers: Native American Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains
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This is a how-to book giving instructions on how to make updated versions of traditional Native American clothing styles. The clothing styles of tribal groups from around North America are discussed. Text includes a history of the clothing styles and detailed instructions, with drawings and photographs of how to produce a garments for contemporary wear.
Native American Fashion : Modern Adaptations of Traditional Designs
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Dispelling myths, answering questions, and stimulating thoughtful avenues for further inquiry, this highly absorbing reference provides a wealth of specific information about over 200 North American Indian groups in Canada and the United States. Readers will easily access important historical and contemporary facts about everything from notable leaders and relations with non-natives to customs, dress, dwellings, weapons, government, and religion. This book is at once exhaustive and captivating, covering myriad aspects of a people spread across a continent.
Divided into ten geographic areas for easy reference, this work illustrates each Native American group in careful detail. Listed alphabetically, starting with the tribal name, translation, origin, and definition, each entry includes significant facts about the group’s location and population, as well as impressive accounts of the group’s history and culture. Bringing entries up-to-date, Barry Pritzker also presents current information on each group’s government, economy, legal status, and land holdings. Whether interpreting the term “tribe” (many traditional Native American groups were not tribes at all but more like extended families) or describing how a Shoshone woman served as a guide on the Lewis and Clark expedition, Pritzker always presents the material in a clear and lively manner.
In light of past and ongoing injustices and the momentum of Indian and Inuit self-determination movements, an understanding of Native American cultures as well as their contributions to contemporary society becomes increasingly important. A magnificent resource, this book liberally provides the essential information necessary to better grasp the history and cultures of North American Indians.
A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples
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This anthology of fiction, prose, and poetry celebrates the rich diversity of writing by Native American women today. Editors Heid E. Erdrich and Laura Tohe have gathered stories from across the nation that celebrate, record, and explore Native American women’s roles in community. The result is a rich tapestry that contains work by established writers along with emerging and first-time authors. Contributors include Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Diane Glancy, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Allison Hedge Coke, LeAnne Howe, Roberta Hill, Kim Blaeser, Linda LeGarde Grover, with a foreword by Winona LaDuke.
Sister Nations: Native American Women Writers On Community
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Over 120 black-and-white patterns, adapted from tribal motifs, depict a host of handsome geometrical, floral, and animal designs. Included are striking elements from Jicarilla Apache basketry, Zuni and Hopi pottery, a Haida shaman’s rattle, mid-twentieth-century Mexican fabric, a Nez Percé woven bag, an Arapaho shield cover, a Navajo blanket, and much more.
Native American Designs Stained Glass Pattern Book
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The flagship book in the Keepers of the Earth series, this environmental classic teaches children respect and stewardship for the Earth and all living things. Joseph Bruchac’s lyrical retellings set the stage for Michael Caduto’s abundance of related activities.
Beginning with Native American stories, this invaluable and time-honored resource provides readers with an abundance of hands-on activities that will inspire children to understand and appreciate Native American cultures and the Earth.
Connects to social studies, science, environmental studies and other content areas.Uses a holistic approach suitable for all ages.Provides field-tested activities.Includes charts, illustrations and graphs to enhance the projects and concepts.
When the stories and activities in this book and its companion teacher’s guide are followed carefully as children progress from kindergarten through the primary grades, roughly ages five through twelve years, they provide a complete program of study in the important concepts and topics of ecology and natural history. As the stories unfold and you help the children to bring the activities to life, a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to teaching about the Earth and Native American cultures begins. These stories and activities weave together lessons both directly and through metaphors and have been enjoyed by families as well as in camp settings, nature centers, environmental education programs, public and private schools, library story hours, and in both rural and urban settings.
Keepers of the Earth: Native American Stories and Environmental Activities for Children
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2 young Native Americans model 31 traditional outfits and accessories of tribes that span the continent: Apache coming-of-age dress, Pueblo Deer Dancer’s costume, decorated with evergreen sprigs, a Tlingit dress with button blanket, an Inuit costume of the Far North, complete with ivory snow goggles and harpoon, the dress of a modern Kiowa princess, more.
North American Indian Girl and Boy Paper Dolls
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