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12,95 USD THE INDIAN HOW BOOK by Arthur C. Parker 335 pages, Paperback How did the Indians do things? How did they make their canoes, tipis, traps, bark lodges, and war bonnets? How did thye hunt, use the peace pipeline, carry out the sun dance, make magic, collect medication, and send signals? All these HOWS and numerous more are explained in this book by Arthur C. Parker (Gawaso Wanneh) from his personal experience and understanding of Indian life. Each of the 74 sections on how the Indians did something is an interesting and revealing exposition of Indian tradition including many little-known truths.
Before the arrival of the iron ax, for instance, Indians utilized to lower trees with a mix of fire and stone hatchets and before iron wire entered into being, they made fishhooks from the leg or wing bone of a large bird. The author describes these and lots of other procedures in information. If you want, you can make your own canoe, tan buckskin or draw an Indian design. You will likewise discover the true habits of Indians, such as: how they were not taciturn (as pictured in various incorrect films) but chuckled and joked much of the time; the number of Indians were not nomadic hunters but settlers who got the majority of their food from farming; and how, in basic, Indians were not savages however native Americans who had a culture of their own with an educational system that practiced learning by doing, with respect for animals and the land, a religion in the spirits of the other world, and a veneration of the values of courage, stability, honor and generosity.
For anyone with little or no knowledge of the American Indian, this book will be a revelation and an obstacle to our modern-day lifestyles. For readers who have some acquaintance with Indian history or anthropology, this book provides an useful guide to over 70 of the crafts, approaches, and experiences of these first and finest American naturalists. When it concerns getting closer to the land in body and spirit, there is no much better teacher than the American Indian.
Unabridged republication of the 1931 edition. 50 illustrations.