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The Native America Sourcebook: Land, People, and Culture: Native American Culture, 1st Edition

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  • ISBN-10: 1615302662
  • ISBN-13: 9781615302666
  • DDC: 970.004
  • Grade Level Range: 9th Grade - 12th Grade
  • 304 Pages | eBook
  • Original Copyright 2011 | Published/Released May 2012
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Overview

Even as contact with European cultures eroded indigenous lifestyles across North America, many Native American groups found ways to preserve the integrity of their communities through the arts, customs, languages, and religious traditions that animate Native American life. While their collective struggles against a common cause may create the semblance of a shared past, each Native American community has a unique heritage that reflects a singular history. The ancient cultural legacies that both distinguish and unite these diverse tribes are the subject of this engrossing volume.

Table of Contents

Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Introduction.
1: Overview.
2: North American Indian Heritage.
3: Acculturation and Assimilation.
4: Native American Culture Areas.
5: The American Arctic and Subarctic Cultures.
6: Peoples of the American Arctic.
7: Linguistic Composition.
8: Ethnic Groups.
9: Traditional Culture.
10: Historical Developments.
11: Contemporary Developments.
12: American Subarctic Peoples.
13: Ethos.
14: Territorial Organization.
15: Settlement and Housing.
16: Production and Technology.
17: Property and Social Stratification.
18: Family and Kinship Relations.
19: Socialization of Children.
20: Religious Beliefs.
21: Cultural Continuity and Change.
22: Northwest Coast and California Culture Areas.
23: Northwest Coast Indian Peoples.
24: Linguistic and Territorial Organization.
25: Stratification and Social Structure.
26: Subsistence, Settlement Patterns, and Housing.
27: Technology and the Visual Arts.
28: Kinship and Family Life.
29: Religion and the Performing Arts.
30: Cultural Continuity and Change.
31: California Indian Peoples.
32: Regional and Territorial Organization.
33: Settlement Patterns.
34: Production and Technology.
35: Property and Exchange Systems.
36: Leadership and Social Status.
37: Religion.
38: Marriage and Child Rearing.
39: Arts.
40: Cultural Continuity and Change.
41: Plateau and Great Basin Culture Areas.
42: Plateau Native Peoples.
43: Language.
44: Trade and Interaction.
45: Settlement Patterns and Housing.
46: Subsistence and Material Culture.
47: Political Organization.
48: Kinship.
49: Childhood and Socialization.
50: Belief Systems.
51: Cultural Continuity and Change.
52: Peoples of the Great Basin.
53: Language.
54: Technology and Economy.
55: Social Organization.
56: Kinship and Marriage.
57: Religion and Ritual.
58: Modern Developments.
59: Southwest and Plains Culture Areas.
60: Southwest Indian Peoples.
61: Language.
62: Subsistence, Settlement Patterns, and Social Organization.
63: Socialization and Education.
64: Belief and Aesthetic Systems.
65: Cultural Continuity and Change.
66: Plains Indian Peoples.
67: Linguistic Organization.
68: The Role of the Horse in Plains Life.
69: Settlement Patterns and Housing.
70: Material Culture and Trade.
71: Political Organization.
72: Kinship and Family.
73: Socialization and Education.
74: Social Rank and Warfare.
75: Belief Systems.
76: Cultural Continuity and Change.
77: Northeast and Southeast Culture Areas.
78: Northeast Indian Peoples.
79: Territorial and Political Organization.
80: Subsistence, Settlement Patterns, and Housing.
81: Production and Technology.
82: Social Organization.
83: Kinship and Family Life.
84: Religion.
85: Cultural Continuity and Change.
86: Southeast Indian Peoples.
87: Traditional Culture Patterns.
88: Cultural Continuity and Change.
89: Native American Art.
90: The Role of the Artist.
91: Origins of Designs.
92: Vision Quest.
93: The Function of Art.
94: Materials.
95: Regional Styles of American Indian Visual Arts.
96: Southwest.
97: Midwest and Great Plains.
98: Far West, Northeast, Central South, and Southeast.
99: Eskimo (Inuit).
100: Northwest Coast.
101: Arts of Contemporary Native Americans.
102: Native American Music.
103: Music in Native American Culture.
104: Musical Events.
105: Music and Language.
106: Aspects of Style.
107: Regional Styles.
108: Northeast and Southeast Indians.
109: Plains.
110: Great Basin.
111: Southwest.
112: Northwest Coast.
113: Arctic.
114: Musical Instruments.
115: Idiophones.
116: Membranophones.
117: Aerophones.
118: Chordophones.
119: Music History of the Native Americans.
120: Colonial Mixtures.
121: Indigenous Trends from 1800.
122: Participation in Art Music.
123: The Study of American Indian Musics.
124: Native American Dance.
125: Extent of Dance Forms.
126: Patterns of Participation.
127: Socially Determined Roles in Dance.
128: Religious Expression in Dance.
129: Patterns and Body Movement.
130: Foreign Influences and Regional Dance Styles.
131: Eskimo (Inuit).
132: Northeast and Southeast Indians.
133: The Great Plains.
134: The Northwest Coast.
135: The Great Basin, the Plateau, and California.
136: The Southwest.
137: Study and Evaluation.
138: Conclusion.
Glossary.
Bibliography.
Index.