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  • Seminole Music

    by Frances Densmore ...
    The Seminole of Florida are a Muskhogean tribe originally made up of immigrants who moved down into Florida from the Lower Creek towns on the Chattahoochee River. Their tribal name is derived from a Creek word meaning "separatist" or "runaway," suggesting that they lack the permanent background of the tribes whose music had previously been studied.Presents 243 Seminole songs, including the songs ... Read more

    $4.18 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chippewa Customs

    by Frances Densmore ...
    Chippewa Customs, first published in 1929, remains an authoritative source for the tribal history, customs, legends, traditions, art, music, economy, and leisure activities of the Chippewa (Ojibway) Indians of the United States and Canada.Praise for Chippewa Customs"Densmore . . . has done a valuable piece of work for posterity by collecting this material."—Minnesota History ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • World of the Teton Sioux Indians

    Their Music, Life, and Culture

    by Frances Theresa Densmore ...
    Sometime in August 1913, two Sioux warriors, Old Buffalo and Swift Dog, met with Frances Densmore at a makeshift recording site in McLaughlin, South Dakota. What Old Buffalo and Swift Dog said that day—about life as they knew it before the reservation era began—lives on still in the pages of this fascinating book. Densmore went on to interview numerous Sioux (or Lakota)/Teton (Lakota) Sioux men ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Chippewa Customs

    by Frances Densmore ...
    Frances Densmore's Chippewa Customs is a foundational ethnographic study of Ojibwe (Chippewa) life, rituals, and traditions. Compiled from fieldwork in the early 20th century, the book documents ceremonies, social roles, child-rearing, food practices, music, and oral storytelling — offering a rare, respectful portrayal of Indigenous life before widespread cultural disruption. Densmore's work, ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Its History and Contruction

    by Thomas Vennum Jr, Rick St. Germaine ...
    Hiding in a lake under lily pads after fleeing U.S. soldiers, a Dakota woman was given a vision over the course of four days instructing her to build a large drum and teaching her the songs that would bring peace and end the killing of her people. From the Dakota, the "big drum" spread throughout the algonquian-speaking tribes to the Ojibwe, becoming the centerpiece of their religious ceremonies ... Read more

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  • THE SUN DANCE OF THE BLACKFOOT INDIANS

    by CLARK WISSLER, Desmond Gahan ...
    The Blackfoot tribes, particularly the Piegan, have been more extensively studied than most other Plains Indians. The writer began a systematic investigation of their culture in 1903. At that time, the only works treating them seriously were those of the younger Henry, Maximilian, and Grinnell. There were some good fragmentary articles by McLean and Hale. Yet, since we began work on this problem, ... Read more

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  • The Canadian Sioux

    by James H. Howard ...
    Series series Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians
    The Canadian Sioux are descendants of Santees, Yanktonais, and Tetons from the United States who sought refuge in Canada during the 1860s and 1870s. Living today on eight reserves in Manitoba and Saskatchewan, they are the least studied of all the Sioux groups. This book, originally published in 1984, helps fill that gap in the literature and remains relevant even in the twenty-first century.Based ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Black Elk Speaks

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    by John G. Neihardt ...
    More than one million copies sold2017 One Book One Nebraska selection“An American classic.”—Western Historical QuarterlyBlack Elk Speaks, the story of the Oglala Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk (1863–1950) and his people during momentous twilight years of the nineteenth century, offers readers much more than a precious glimpse of a vanished time. Black Elk’s searing v... ... Read more

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  • Mountain Man Skills

    Hunting, Trapping, Woodwork, and More

    by Stephen Brennan ...
    Crafts and Skills of the Mountain Man is a fascinating, practical guide to the skills that have made the mountain men famous worldwide as outdoorsmen and craftsmen. Readers can replicate outdoor living by trying a hand at making rafts and canoes, constructing tools, and living off the land.Learn key skills like:Building a strong fire.Learning to hunt and butcher your meals.Creating a safe and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Indian Legends of Canada

    by Ella Elizabeth Clark ...
    The role of storyteller was always a very special one among Native Americans, combining the functions of philosopher, historian, and entertainer. Winter was the time for the stories around the fire, when the hunt was over and people longed to be “lifted to the fairyland of pure imagination,” as an early twentieth-century Native American has said. This book contains the magic created around the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden

    Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians

    by Gilbert L. Wilson ...
    Buffalo Bird Woman, a Hidatsa Indian born about 1839, was an expert gardener. Following centuries-old methods, she and the women of her family raised huge crops of corn, squash, beans, and sunflowers on the rich bottomlands of the Missouri River in what is now North Dakota. When she was young, her fields were near Like-a-fishhook, the earth-lodge village that the Hidatsa shared with the Mandan and ... Read more

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  • The Indian Tipi: Its History, Construction, and Use

    Its History, Construction, and Use

    by Reginald Laubin, Gladys Laubin ...
    When the first edition of this book was published in 1957, the art of making a tipi was almost lost, even among American Indians. Since that time a tremendous resurgence of interest in the Indian way of life has occurred, resurgence due in part, at least, to the Laubins' life-long efforts at preservation and interpretation of Indian culture.As The Indian Tipi makes obvious, the American Indian is ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD