Family life in Native America

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Volo, James M., 1947-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Other Authors: Volo, Dorothy Denneen, 1949-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c2007.
Series:Family life through history.
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Online Access:An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of 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.