02831oam 2200577 450 991078487270332120221011140909.01-281-10674-797866111067440-313-08115-8(OCoLC)191849949(MiFhGG)GVRL3MHU(EXLCZ)99100000000040298020070720d2007 uy 0engurun|---uuuuatxtccrFamily life in Native America /James M. Volo and Dorothy Denneen VoloWestport, Conn. Greenwood Pressc2007Westport, Conn. :Greenwood Press,2007.1 online resource (xx, 399 pages) illustrations, mapsFamily life through historyDescription based on print version record.0-313-33795-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. [383]-386) and index.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.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 Ògreat hunters, fishermen, farmers and fighters, as well as the most powerful and sophisticated Indian nation north of Mexico [the Iroquois Confederacy].|Family life through history.Woodland IndiansSocial life and customsWoodland IndiansHistoryFamiliesEast (U.S.)HistoryKinshipEast (U.S.)HistorySocial structureEast (U.S.)HistoryEast (U.S.)Social life and customsEast (U.S.)HistoryWoodland IndiansSocial life and customs.Woodland IndiansHistory.FamiliesHistory.KinshipHistory.Social structureHistory.306.85089/97Volo James M.1947-1473652Volo Dorothy Denneen1949-MiFhGGMiFhGGBOOK9910784872703321Family life in Native America3872044UNINA