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Author:
Hungrywolf, Adolf 1944-  Search this
Physical description:
233 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Type:
Folklore
Place:
North America
Date:
2008
©2008
Contents:
A child is born: Winnebago birthing, naming, and adoption ; Flathead-Salish childbirth ; The naming feast ; Flathead-Salish naming customs ; Chippewa life cycle ; Parents and children ; Early childhood among the Flathead-Salish ; Life cycle among the Plains Cree -- Growing up outdoors: Training of a Flathead-Salish girl ; Omaha care and training of children ; Education among the Flathead-Salish ; Ancestral embers ; Childhood among the Plains Cree ; Gros Ventres childhood -- Initiations to tribal mysteries: A Winnebago boy's initiation ; Poor Wolf joins a Hidatsa boy's society ; Daughters of Ponca chiefs ; A girl joins a Mandan women's society ; Fasting customs among Winnebago children ; Omaha ceremony to honor a young girl ; Children of the Iruska ; A Sioux boy as Heyoka ; Clowns among the Crow tribe ; Hosteen Klah : boy medicine man of the Navajo -- Staying alive: My Indian grandmother ; An Omaha boy gets native doctoring ; A Hidatsa childhood in the 1860s ; Childhood quotes ; Goodbird is nearly drowned ; The Pawnee girl who saved a prisoner ; Riding a dog travois ; Games played by Omaha children ; A Taos schoolboy at home for the summer ; Chippewa government of children -- Finding a mate ; Omaha marriage customs ; Winnebago marriage customs ; Sioux maiden's feast ; Hidatsa courting customs ; Courting at the corn harvest ; Courting in Sioux tipi camps ; Blackfoot tipi-creeping on the Canadian prairies ; Plains Cree customs ; Chippewa puberty customs -- Some childhood stories: A typical summer day for a Hidatsa boy ; Childhood memories of Willie Eagle Plume ; The debut of Aloyasius ; The return ; Little-Joe's back home ; The conversion of a dozen young Hopis ; Little Taos boy at a dance ; A Sun Dance child of the Blackfeet -- Tales for the fireside: Manitoshaw, the hunting girl ; The poor turkey girl ; Coyote and the fawn's stars ; Coyote and crow ; Blackfoot legends : Napi and the Great Spirit ; Napi makes buffalo laugh ; Napi and the elk skull ; Origin of names among the Cherokees ; Why the turkey is bald ; The simple happiness of a Navajo girl
Topic:
Indian children  Search this
Indian infants  Search this
Social life and customs  Search this
Birth customs  Search this
Child rearing  Search this
Indian families  Search this
Families  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
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