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Guide to Learning about Native Americans: Culture

Student-created guide, updated and expanded

Overviews of Different Nations

Books in the Edith Hamilton

Atlas of the North American Indian    
   [ Book ]   Call #: 970.00497 W    Waldman, Carl, 1947-
  Series: Facts on File library of American history
  Published 2009
  Reading Level: 8.6  Interest Level: 5-8

Encyclopedia of Native American tribes    
   [ Book ]   Call #: Ref 970.004 W    Waldman, Carl.
  Published 1988

 

Handbook of North American Indians. Subarctic. v.6    
   [ Book ]   Call #: Ref 970.004 H v.6    William C. Sturtevant, general editor ; June Helm, volume editor.
  Series: Handbook of North American Indians.
  Published 1981

Arts, Customs, and Beliefs of Different Nations

Books in the Edith Hamilton

Spirits of the earth : a guide to Native American nature symbols, stories, and ceremonies    
   [ Book ]   Call #: 398.08997 L    Lake-Thom, Bobby.
  Published 1997
  Interest Level: Adult

The encyclopedia of Native American religions    
   [ Book ]   Call #: Ref 299.7 H    Hirschfelder, Arlene B.
  Published 1992

Native American cooking : foods of the Southwest Indian nations    
   [ Book ]   Call #: 641.59 F    Frank, Lois Ellen.
  Published 1991

Voices of Native America : Native American instruments and music    
   [ Book ]   Call #: 781.62 S    Spotted Eagle, Douglas.
  Published 1997

They dance in the sky : Native American star myths    
   [ Book ]   Call #: 398.2 M    Monroe, Jean Guard.
  Published 1987
  Reading Level: 5.5  Interest Level: 5-8

Foods of the Americas : native recipes and traditions    
   [ Book ]   Call #: 641.59 D    Divina, Fernando.
  Published 2004

The Arts of the North American Indian : native traditions in evolution    
   [ Book ]   Call #: 704.03 A    edited by Edwin L. Wade ; Carol Haralson, coordinating editor.
  Published 1986

Native American architecture    
   [ Book ]   Call #: 722.91 N    Nabokov, Peter.
  Published 1989

Native North American art    
   [ Book ]   Call #: 704.3 B    Berlo, Janet Catherine.
  Series: Oxford history of art
  Published 1998

Two-spirit people : Native American gender identity, sexuality, and spirituality    
   [ Book ]   Call #: 306.7 T    edited by Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Wesley Thomas, and Sabine Lang.
  Published 1997

Native American identities : from stereotype to archetype in art and literature    
   [ Book ]   Call #: 305.897 V    Vickers, Scott B., 1947-
  Published 1998

In the trail of the wind; American Indian poems and ritual orations.    
   [ Book ]   Call #: 811.08 B    Bierhorst, John,
  Published 1971
  Interest Level: 7-10

Lacrosse : a history of the game    
   [ Book ]   Call #: 796.347 F    Fisher, Donald M., 1967-
  Published 2002

A cry from the earth : music of the North American Indians    
   [ Book ]   Call #: 781.62 B    Bierhorst, John.
  Published 1992

 

Native Americans Today

Books in the Edith Hamilton

American Indians today : issues and conflicts    
   [ Book ]   Call #: 973 H    Harlan, Judith.
  Series: An Impact book
  Published 1987
  Interest Level: 7-10

The state of the Native nations : conditions under U.S. policies of self-determination : the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development    
   [ Book ]   Call #: 973.0497 H    Eric C. Henson ... [et al.].
  Published 2008

The Native American almanac : a portrait of Native America today    
   [ Book ]   Call #: Ref 970.1 H    Hirschfelder, Arlene B.
  Published 1993

Happily may I walk : American Indians and Alaska natives today    
   [ Book ]   Call #: 973.0497 H    Hirschfelder, Arlene B.
  Published 1986
  Reading Level: 8.3  Interest Level: 5-8

Yellow woman and a beauty of the spirit : essays on Native American life today    
   [ Book ]   Call #: 970.004 S    Silko, Leslie, 1948-
  Published 1997