Native North America - a book by Larry J Zimmerman

Picked up the following book and it has been a wonderful read. "Native North America" by Larry Zimmerman offers a comprehensive account of Native North American life, complete with many illustrations, artefacts and beautiful images. Highly recommended.

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Product Description

"With abundant photographs, more than 150 in color, NATIVE NORTH AMERICA illustrates tribal life, sacred arenas, spiritual traditions, and artifacts of the indigenous peoples of North America, from the Inuit of the Canadian north to the Navajo of the American southwest.

Beginning with a brief history of Native Americans, Larry Zimmerman and Brian Molyneaux explore individual culture areas, region by region. They discuss Native American spiritual observances, including personal and communal rituals, initiation rites, and curing ceremonies. Through descriptions of the powwow, rites of passage, plant rituals, oral storytelling, dreams, the ghost dance, and the drum, the authors provide a sensitive introduction to Native American spiritual traditions and examines issues that face Native Americans today."

About the Author

"Larry Zimmerman is Chair of the American Indian and Native Studies Program at the University of Iowa. He is author of Peoples of Prehistoric South Dakota and coeditor of Indians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria, Jr. and the Critique of Anthropology and South Dakota Leaders. Brian Molyneaux is Director of the University of South Dakota Archaeology Laboratory. He has done extensive archaeological fieldwork in the Great Plains and Canada. He is the author of The Sacred Earth, editor of The Cultural Life of Images: Visual Representation in Archaeology, and coeditor of The Presented Past: Heritage, Museums and Education."