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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807860503321

Autore

Volo James M. <1947->

Titolo

Family life in Native America / / James M. Volo and Dorothy Denneen Volo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, Conn. : , : Greenwood Press, , c2007

London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), , 2024

ISBN

979-84-00-64985-1

1-281-10674-7

9786611106744

0-313-08115-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 399 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Family life through history

Altri autori (Persone)

VoloDorothy Denneen <1949->

Disciplina

306.85089/97

Soggetti

Family - East (U.S.) - History

Kinship - East (U.S.) - History

Social structure - East (U.S.) - History

Woodland Indians - History

Woodland Indians - Social life and customs

East (U.S.) History

East (U.S.) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based on print version record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-386) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume provides insight into the family life of Native Americans of the northeast quadrant of the North American continent and those living in the adjacent coastal and piedmont regions. These Native Americans were among the most familiar to Euro-colonials for more than two centuries. From the tribes of the northeast woodlands came



Ò€great hunters, fishermen, farmers and fighters, as well as the most powerful and sophisticated Indian nation north of Mexico [the Iroquois Confederacy].|