Native North America

by Zimmerman, Larry J.

• ISBN13: 9780806132860
• ISBN10: 0806132868
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-08-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

With abundant photographs, more than 160 in color, Native North Americaillustrates tribal life, sacred arenas, spiritual traditions, and artifacts of the indigenous people of North America, from the Inuit of the Canadian north to the Navajo of the American southwest. Beginning with a brief history of Native Americans, Larry Zimmerman and Brian Molyneaux explore individual culture areas, region by region. They discuss Native American spiritual observances, including personal and communal rituals, initiation rites, and curing ceremonies. Through descriptions of the powwow, rites of passage, plant rituals, oral storytelling, dreams, the ghost dance, and the drum, the authors provide a sensitive introduction to Native American spiritual traditions and examine issues that face Native Americans today.

Author Biography

Brian Leigh Molyneaux is Director of the University of South Dakota Archaeology Laboratory.

Table of Contents

Introduction	6	(2)
The First American Peoples	8	(12)
Identity	10	(2)
Concepts of time	12	(2)
The peopling of North America	14	(4)
Cahokia	18	(2)
Dispossession	20	(16)
Forced movements	22	(2)
Reservations	24	(2)
The impact of Christianity	26	(2)
Two faces of history	28	(4)
Leading figures	32	(4)
Lands and Peoples	36	(38)
The Northeast	38	(4)
Peterborough petroglyphs	42	(2)
The Southeast	44	(2)
The Plains	46	(4)
The Great Basin	50	(2)
The Southwest	52	(4)
Chaco Canyon	56	(2)
California	58	(2)
The Northwest coast and Plateau	60	(4)
The Subarctic	64	(2)
The Arctic	66	(4)
Patterns and symbols	70	(4)
The Life of the Spirit	74	(40)
Foundations of the sacred	76	(2)
Nature and spirit	78	(2)
Kinship and spirit	80	(2)
Haida villages	82	(2)
Sacred societies	84	(4)
Ceremonial transformations	88	(2)
The powwow	90	(2)
Holy people	92	(6)
Seeking the spirit	98	(2)
Rites of passage	100	(4)
Celebrating the past	104	(2)
The Great Serpent Mound	106	(2)
Honouring the animals	108	(2)
Plant rituals	110	(2)
World renewal	112	(2)
Sacred History	114	(12)
Creation stories	116	(4)
Culture heroes	120	(4)
Recording history	124	(2)
The Survival of the Sacred	126	(12)
Keeping traditional ways	128	(2)
Dreams	130	(2)
Nativistic movements	132	(4)
The Ghost Dance	136	(2)
To the Seventh Generation	138	(22)
The drum is a circle	140	(2)
The drum is a heartbeat	142	(2)
Reclaiming the past	144	(2)
Native scholars	146	(2)
Contemporary curing	148	(2)
Cottage industries to casinos	150	(2)
Tourism	152	(2)
Bear Butte	154	(2)
The Red Road	156	(2)
Native media	158	(2)
Documentary Reference	160	(12)
Current land issues	161	(3)
Languages	164	(2)
Social organization	166	(2)
Population 1	168	(2)
Population 2: Map	170	(2)
Glossary	172	(1)
Bibliography	173	(2)
Index	175	(8)
Picture credits	183