Kids Library Home

Welcome to the Kids' Library!

Search for books, movies, music, magazines, and more.

     
Available items only
E-Book/E-Doc
Author Volo, James M., 1947-

Title Family life in Native America [electronic resource] / James M. Volo and Dorothy Denneen Volo.

Imprint Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c2007.

Copies

Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xx, 399 p. : ill., maps.
Series Family life through history
Family life through history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-386) and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Woodland Indians -- Social life and customs.
Woodland Indians -- History.
Families -- East (U.S.) -- History.
Kinship -- East (U.S.) -- History.
Social structure -- East (U.S.) -- History.
East (U.S.) -- Social life and customs.
East (U.S.) -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Volo, Dorothy Denneen, 1949-
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780313337956 (alk. paper)

 
    
Available items only