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1980
THE INDIAN
BOOK
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The Indian
Book
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The Indian
Book The 1980 Childcraft Annual
An annual supplement Childcraft
to
—The How and Why Library
World Book-Childcraft International, A
subsidiary of The Scoti
Inc.
& Fetzer Company
Chicago London Paris Sydney Tokyo Toronto
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World Book
1980
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ISBN 0-7166-0680-1 Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 65-25105
Contents 7
Preface
8
The Ancestors
28
The Chippewa
of the Indians
People of the Northern Woodlands
48
The Mohawk People of the Longhouse
72
The Nez Perce People of the Western Mountains
94
The Hopi Village Dwellers of the Southwest
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116
The
Tlingit
People of the Northwest Coast
138
The Osage Village Dwellers of the Plains
158
The Porno People of California
172
The Cherokee People of the Southeastern Mountains
194
The Blackfoot Wanderers of the Great Plains
214
The Arawak People of the Caribbean Islands
232
The Aztec City Dwellers of Mexico
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250
The Yawalapiti People of the Tropical Forest
266
The Inca People of the Andes Mountains
284
Indians Today
296
Illustration
297
Index
Acknowledgments
Copyright
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1980
World Book-Childcraft Internationa) Inc Merchandise Mart Plaza. Chicago.
Illinois
60654
All rights reserved
Printed
in
the United States of America
ISBN 0-7166-0680-1 Librar,^ of
Congress Catalog Card No. 6^25105
Ccntents 7
Pref ce
8
The
28
Ancestors of the
The Chippewa Peole of the Northern Woodaniis
48
The lohawk Peole of the Longhouse
72
The
lez
Perce
Peoie of the Western MonmanR
94
The
lopi
Village
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116
The
Dwellers of the
Soutfaweaf
lingit
Peoie of the Northwest
138
The
Coasr
(sage
Villa e Dwellers of thePIanB
The
bmo
PeofB of California
he Cierokee Peop; of the
Southeastern
Mmti'm
foot of the
Great ?l3;w
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Preface This book
is
about the Indians of North and
you will find out who these people are and where they came from. South America. In
You
will see
of Europe will learn
how
came
it,
they lived before the people
to their lands. Finally,
something of what
it is
you
like to
be
an Indian today.
The people Columbus called ''Indians" were and are many very different groups of people. They had hundreds of languages, wore different kinds of clothing, and ate
—
—
different kinds of food.
and some
many
in
different beliefs.
book show these Life for a Tlingit boy on
tribes in this
differences.
the western coast of like
lived in tepees
wooden houses. And they had
The thirteen
many
Some
Canada was not
at
all
that of a Hopi girl in the Southwestern
part of the United States, or an Aztec boy in
Mexico, or an Inca
girl in
the Andes
Mountains of Peru. For how each Indian group lived depended very much upon where it
lived.
So come,
find out
what
it
was
like to
Indian child hundreds of years ago
these
ways
of
life
be an
—before
changed forever.
The Ancestors of the Indians Who
are the American Indians? Have they
North and South America? where did they come from?
always lived not,
in
If
Long ago, there were no people at all in North or South America. But there were people in other parts of the world. thirty
And about
thousand years ago, some wandering
hunters from Asia entered what Alaska. They were the
first
is
now
people in North
America. Others followed them. Slowly, over thousands of years, the
descendants of these hunters spread through
North America. In time, they got to the very tip of South America.
Some
all
the
way
of these people lived mainly by
hunting. Others learned to
grow
food.
Some
cities
and beautiful works of
plants for
built rich civilizations, with great art.
These
hunters, farmers, artists, and builders were the ancestors of the people Christopher
Columbus met when he arrived in 1492. Columbus thought he had landed in a part of Asia known as the Indies. Because of this he called the people he met 'Indians." And this is the
ever since.
name they have been known by
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