Indians of the Eastern Woodlands


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Describes the history, customs, religion, government, homes, and people of the four main Indian groups that lived in the woodlands of the Northeast.




Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands


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Find out about the Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands and find out how these tribes live today.




Eastern Woodlands Indians


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These book focus on Native American culture by examining geographic and cultural groupings as well as the major nations and tribes within each area.




Bridges: Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands


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Native Americans of the Eastern Woodlands live in a huge area of the eastern United States that stretched from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River. Find out what their lives were like and how these tribes live today.




Indians of the Eastern Woodlands


Book Description

Describes the history, customs, religion, government, homes, and people of the four main Indian groups that lived in the woodlands of the Northeast.




Native North American Spirituality of the Eastern Woodlands


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This work makes available for the first time in a single volume a representative collection of the major spiritual texts from the Native American Indian peoples of the East Coast. Elisabeth Tooker, professor of anthropology at Temple University and and editor of The Handbook of North American Indians, presents the sacred traditions of the Iroquois, Winnibego, Fox, Menominee, Delaware, Cherokee and others. Included here are cosmological myths, thanksgiving addresses, dreams and visions, speeches of the shamans, teachings of parents, puberty fasts, blessings, healing rites, stories, songs, ceremonials for fires, hunting wars, feasts and the rituals of various spiritual societies.




Woodland Indians


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Describes the history and culture of the prehistoric Woodland Indians as well as the Central Algonquian, Coastal Algonquian, and Iroquois tribes.




Societies in Eclipse


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While contact with explorers, missionaries, and traders made a significant impact on natives of the Eastern Woodlands, Indian peoples cannot be solely understood from the historical record. Here, in Societies in Eclipse, archaeologists combine recent research with insights from anthropology, historiography, and oral tradition to examine the cultural landscape preceding and immediately following the arrival of Europeans. The evidence suggests that native societies were in the process of significant cultural transformation prior to contact.




American Indians of the Northeast and Southeast


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Sharing a number of traditions and practices, the Native American tribes of the Northeast and Southeast regions of the United States are sometimes considered as a single culture area known as the Eastern Woodlands. Despite their cultural similarities, however, each region, and each tribe within each region, has its own customs and histories that distinguish one from another. This engaging volume examines the history of the indigenous peoples, including their first encounters with European colonizers and conquerors, as well as the various native languages, rituals, kinship, and characteristics that have survived despite Western influence and assimilation practices.