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Book SynopsisAmerican Indian Life is a picture of native American life, in much the sense that a series of biographies of one statesman, poet, or common citizen from each country of Europe would yield a cross-sectional aspect of the civilization of that continent. It is through the medium of the intensive and special coloring of each tribal civilization, that the common elements of Indian culture are brought out most truthfully, even though somewhat indirectly.
Table of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart 1. PLAINS TRIBES -- Takes-the-pipe, a Crow Warrior By Robert H. Lowie, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of CaliforniaA Crow Womans Tale By Robert H. Lowie, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of CaliforniaA Trial of Shamans By Robert H. Lowie, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of CaliforniaSmoking-star, a Blackfoot Shaman By Clark Wissler, Curator of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural HistoryPart 2. TRIBES OF THE MIDDLE WEST -- Little-wolf Joins the Medicine Lodge By Alanson Skinner, Assistant Curator, Public Museum, MilwaukeeThunder-cloud, a Winnebago Shaman, Relates and Prays By Paul Radin, Late of the Department of Anthropology, University of CaliforniaHow Meskwaki Children Should Be Brought Up By Truman Michelson, Ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian InstitutionPart 3. EASTERN TRIBES -- In Montagnais Country By Frank G. Speck, Professor of Anthropology, University of PennsylvaniaHanging-flower, the Iroquois By Alexander A. Goldenweiser, Lecturer in Anthropology, New School of Social ResearchThe Thunder Power of Rumbling-wingsBy M. R. Harrington, Ethnologist, Museum of the American Indian, Heye FoundationTokulki of Tulsa By John R. Swanton, Ethnologist, Bureau of American Ethnology, Smithsonian InstitutionPart 4. TRIBES OF THE SOUTH-WEST -- Slender-maiden of the Apache By P. E. Goddard, Curator of Ethnology, American Museum of Natural HistoryWhen John the Jeweler was Sick By A. M. Stephen, Sometime Resident Among the Hopi and NavahoWaiyautitsa of Zuñi, New Mexico By Elsie Clews Parsons, Member of the Hopi TribeZuñi Pictures By Stewart Culin, Curator of Anthropology, Brooklyn Institute MuseumHavasupai Days By Leslie Spier of the Department of Sociology, University of WashingtonEarth-tongue, a Mohave By A. L. Kroeber, Professor of Anthropology, University of CaliforniaPart 5. MEXICAN TRIBES -- The Chief Singer of the Tepecano By J. Alden Mason, Assistant Curator in Anthropology, Field Museum of Natural HistoryThe Understudy of Tezcatlipoca By Herbert Spinden, Lecturer in Anthropology, Harvard UniversityHow Holon Chan Became the True Man of His People By Sylvanus G. Morley, Associate, Carnegie Institution of WashingtonThe Toltec Architect of Chichen Itza By Alfred M. Tozzer, Professor of Anthropology, Harvard University, and Curator Middle American Archaeology, Peabody MuseumPart 6. PACIFIC COAST TRIBES -- Wixi of the Shellmound People By N. C. Nelson, Associate Curator of North American Archæology, American Museum of Natural HistoryAll Is Trouble Along the Klamath By T. T. Waterman, Ethnologist, Museum of the American Indian, Heye FoundationSayachapis, a Nootka Trader By Edward Sapir, Head of Division of Anthropology, Geological Survey of CanadaPart 7. NORTHERN ATHABASCAN TRIBES -- Windigo, a Chipewyan Story By Robert H. Lowie, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of CaliforniaCries-for-salmon, a Tena Woman By T. B. Reed and Elsie Clews Parsons. Mr. Reed is an Alaskan (Tena) student in Hampton InstitutePart 8. ESKIMO -- An Eskimo Winter By Franz Boas, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia UniversityAppendix Notes on the Various TribesIllustrators NotesIndex.
