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Family life in Native America / James M. Volo and Dorothy Denneen Volo.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Volo, James M., 1947-
- Series:
- Family life through history.
- Family life through history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--East (U.S.)--History.
- Families.
- Kinship--East (U.S.)--History.
- Kinship.
- Social structure--East (U.S.)--History.
- Social structure.
- Woodland Indians--History.
- Woodland Indians.
- Woodland Indians--Social life and customs.
- East (U.S.)--History.
- East (U.S.).
- East (U.S.)--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 399 pages) : illustrations, maps.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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].|
- Contents:
- An environmental geography of the northeast Woodlands
- The structure of Woodland society
- Native American kinship systems
- Child rearing from birth to marriage
- A world wrought from nature
- The bountiful earth mother
- Native American ceremonies and rituals
- The tomahawk and the cross
- Wilderness warfare
- The fur trade
- Intertribal trade and conflict
- Dispossessing the First Nations
- The Indian alliances
- Fighting back : the dark and bloody ground.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-386) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798400649851
- 9786611106744
- 9781281106742
- 1281106747
- 9780313081156
- 0313081158
- OCLC:
- 191849949
- Publisher Number:
- 10.5040/9798400649851
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