Everyday Life Among the American Indians 1800 to 1900 - Softcover

Moulton, Candy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1582974713 ISBN 13: 9781582974712

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2001

Synopsis

A perfect guide for writers, students, and historians! Everyday Life Among the American Indians corrects decades of misinformation with insightful, accurate scholarship that belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in reading - or writing - the real story. Covering more than 500 tribes and including maps, illustrations, chronologies, and detailed overviews of day-to-day life, this invaluable reference for writers, researchers and students is at once comprehensive and strikingly accessible. From the Louisiana Purchase to the Trail of Tears to Wounded Knee and beyond, the author vividly portrays the disappearing cultures of nineteenth-century American Indians with dignity and in astonishing detail, including information on: tribal leadership, weaponry and warfare, food and shelter, tools and medicine, languages, customs, religions, and crime and punishment.

About this title

From the Publisher:

The Everyday Life series helps writers, students and researchers save valuable time and bring richness and historical accuracy to their work. Each guide describes the food, clothes, customs, slang, occupations, religions, politics and other historical details that are so often difficult to find.

About the Author:

Candy Moulton is the author of Everyday Life in the Wild West and has had articles and photographs published in Time, Travel and Leisure, Southwestern Art and The Denver Post. She is the editor of the Western Writers of America's Roundup magazine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1582974713
• ISBN 13: 9781582974712
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 273