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Bezig met laden... Old Indian trails (editie 1992)door Walter McClintock (Auteur)
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Index: My Indian guide -- Crossing the Rocky Mountains -- Our camp near the summit -- Home of the scout -- Stories by the scout's mother-in-law -- My adoption by Mad Wolf -- Mad Wolf tells the legend of the beaver bundle -- I am given an Indian name and made a member of the Blackfoot Tribe -- Home of Mad Wolf -- Marriage customs -- The head-chief and his wife -- Legend of the smoking star -- My night experience with a grizzly bear -- Indian summer -- A frontier dance -- Hunting Rocky Mountain goats -- The blizzard -- Snow-bound -- The mad Indian -- Coming of the chinook -- Beginning of spring -- Our camp in the mountains -- Our north expedition -- Onesta and his sacred bear spear -- Camp of the Blood Indians -- Country of the North Piegans -- Camp of Brings-Down-the-Sun -- Onesta gives his Crow water ceremony -- The rival medicine man -- Brings-Down-the-Sun tells about his father -- Brings-Down-the-Sun tells about the birds and the stars -- Legends of Star Boy and Scarface -- Beginning of the Sun Dance -- Forming the Great Circle Camp -- Life in the Great Circle Camp -- Painted tepees [tipis] and picture writing -- A Native doctor and his patient -- Dance of the Hair-Parters (Grass Dance) -- Society of Brave Dogs -- A medicine-pipe ceremony -- A sacred ceremony in Mad Wolf's tepee [tipi] -- The tribal dancing-lodge -- End of the Sun Dance and farewell to my Indian father -- Appendix: Medicinal and useful plants of the Blackfoot Indians.
This pioneering study in Native American ethnology and personal odyssey into one of the last American frontiers was first published in 1923 and is now a hard-to-find collector's item. Containing a foreword by the author of BLUE HIGHWAYS and RIVER-HORSE, this moving look at the daily life and customs of a Native American tribe. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)973.04973History and Geography North America United States United States Ethnic And National Groups Other Groups Native AmericansLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: Geen beoordelingen.Ben jij dit?Word een LibraryThing Auteur. |