ISBN:
9780313337956
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xx, 399 p)
,
ill., maps
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25 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Family life through history
Series Statement:
Family Life Through History Ser
Parallel Title:
Print version Family Life in Native America
DDC:
306.85089/97
Keywords:
Families History
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Kinship History
;
Woodland Indians Social life and customs
;
Woodland Indians History
;
Social structure History
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East (U.S.) ; History
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East (U.S.) ; Social life and customs
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Families ; East (U.S.) ; History
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Kinship ; East (U.S.) ; History
;
Social structure ; East (U.S.) ; History
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Woodland Indians ; History
;
Woodland Indians ; Social life and customs
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Electronic books
;
East (U.S.) Social life and customs
;
East (U.S.) History
Abstract:
This volume provides insight into the family life of Native Americans of the northeast quadrant of the North American continent and those living in the adjacent coastal and piedmont regions. These Native Americans were among the most familiar to Euro-colonials for more than two centuries. From the tribes of the northeast woodlands came Ògreat hunters, fishermen, farmers and fighters, as well as the most powerful and sophisticated Indian nation north of Mexico [the Iroquois Confederacy].|
Description / Table of Contents:
Family Life in Native America ; Contents; Preface; Introduction: First Contacts with Native America; Part I: An Overview of the Native American World; 1. An Environmental Geography of the Northeast Woodlands; 2. The Structure of Woodland Society; Part II: The Indian Family as Villagers; 3. Native American Kinship Systems; 4. Child Rearing from Birth to Marriage; 5. A World Wrought from Nature; 6. The Bountiful Earth Mother; Part III: The Indian Family and the Spiritual World; 7. Native American Ceremonies and Rituals; 8. The Tomahawk and the Cross; Part IV: The Indian Family in Conflict
Description / Table of Contents:
9. Wilderness Warfare10. The Fur Trade; 11. Intertribal Trade and Conflict; Part V: The Indian Family as Diplomats; 12. Dispossessing the First Nations; 13. The Indian Alliances; 14. Fighting Back: The Dark and Bloody Ground; Epilogue: The Small Wars and Manifest Destiny; Appendix: North American Indian Lifestyles; Maps; Selected Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-386) and index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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