American Indian Life

About this eBook

Editor

Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, 1874-1941

Title

American Indian life

Credits

Produced by Turgut Dincer, Robert Tonsing, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

E011: History: America: America

Subject

Indians of Mexico -- Social life and customs

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 59968

Release Date

July 22, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.AMERICAN INDIAN LIFE
2. 2.TABLE OF CONTENTS
3. 3.Preface
4. 4.Introduction
5. 5.Takes-the-pipe, a Crow Warrior — I — II — III — IV — V — VI
6. 6.A Crow Woman’s Tale
7. 7.A Trial of Shamans
8. 8.Smoking-star, a Blackfoot Shaman
9. 9.Little-wolf Joins the Medicine Lodge — I IN THE LODGE OF THE MASTER — II THE INSTRUCTION — III THE INITIATION
10. 10.Thunder-cloud, a Winnebago Shaman, Relates and Prays
11. 11.How Meskwaki Children Should Be Brought Up
12. 12.In Montagnais Country
13. 13.Hanging-flower, the Iroquois — I — II — III — IV — V — VI — VII — VIII — IX — X — XI — XII
14. 14.The Thunder Power of Rumbling-wings
15. 15.Tokulki of Tulsa
16. 16.Slender-maiden of the Apache
17. 17.When John the Jeweler was Sick [4]
18. 18.Waiyautitsa of Zuñi, New Mexico
19. 19.Zuñi Pictures
20. 20.Havasupai Days — I — II — III
21. 21.Earth-tongue, a Mohave
22. 22.The Chief Singer of the Tepecano
23. 23.The Understudy of Tezcatlipoca
24. 24.How Holon Chan Became The True Man of His People
25. 25.The Toltec Architect of Chichen Itza
26. 26.Wixi of the Shellmound People — ON THE BEACH — AT BREAKFAST — DRAKE PASSES — IN THE COUNCIL LODGE — PROOF
27. 27.All Is Trouble Along the Klamath
28. 28.Sayach’apis, a Nootka Trader
29. 29.Windigo, a Chipewyan Story — I — II — III — IV
30. 30.Cries-for-salmon, a Ten’a Woman
31. 31.An Eskimo Winter
32. 32.APPENDIX — NOTES ON THE VARIOUS TRIBES [19] — Crow — Blackfoot — Menomini — Winnebago — Meskwaki — Montagnais — Iroquois — Lenape or Delaware Indians — Creeks — Apache — Navaho — Zuñi Indians — Havasupai — Mohave — Tepecanos — Aztecs — Mayas — The Shellmound People — Yurok — Nootka — Chipewyan — Ten’a — Eskimos — ILLUSTRATOR’S NOTES — Takes-the-pipe, a Crow Warrior — Smoking-star, a Blackfoot Shaman — Little-wolf Joins the Medicine Lodge — Thunder-cloud, a Winnebago Shaman, Relates and Prays — How Meskwaki Children Should Be Brought Up — In Montagnais Country — Hanging-flower, the Iroquois — The Thunder Power of Rumbling-wings — Tokulki of Tulsa — Slender-maiden of the Apache — When John the Jeweler was Sick — Waiyautitsa of Zuñi, New Mexico — Zuñi Pictures — Havasupai Days — Earth-tongue, a Mohave — The Chief Singer of the Tepecano — The Understudy of Tezcatlipoca — How Holon Chan Became the True Man of His People — The Toltec Architect of Chichen Itza — Wixi of the Shellmound People — All Is Trouble Along the Klamath — Sayach’apis, a Nootka Trader — Cries-for-salmon, a Ten’a Woman — An Eskimo Winter

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