The Indian Book: The 1980 Childcraft Annual
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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

Copyright

©

World Book

1980

— Childcraft International, Inc.

Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago,

Illinois

60654

All rights reserved

Printed

in

the United States of America

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

Editorial Advisory

Board

Staff

Library

Editorial Director

Product Production

for Childcraft

The

Executive Director

How and Why

Philip Hall

William H. Nault, Ed.D.

Pre-Press Services J. J.

Chairman, William H. Nault, A.B., M.A., Ed.D. General Chairman, Editorial Advisory Boards,

World Book

— Childcraft International,

Inc.

Editorial

Department

John Babrick, B.A., Manager

Executive Editor Robert 0. Zeleny, B.A.

Joseph R. Christian, M.D.

Department of

Pediatrics,

and Woman's Board

Harry R. Snowden,

Alfred Jr.,

M.S.

Thomas

College,

Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, Illinois

Harold D. Drummond, A.B., M.A., Ed.D.

E.

McGowen

Index Services Martha Stout Solano, B.S., Head Elizabeth A. Byrum, B.A.

Dean

for Curriculum

and

Mozdzen, Manager McDonald, B.S., Assistant Manager

J.

Sandra Grebenar,

B.S.,

Product Manager

Research and Development Henry Koval, B.A., Manager

Manufacturing Joseph C. LaCount, Director

Professor of Elementary Education and Associate

J.

Barbara

Production Control

Senior Editor

Chairman,

Rush Medical Chicago,

Fihn Separations

Managing Editor

Professor and Chairman,

Stack, A.B., Director

Composition

Art

Instruction,

Executive Art Director

College of Education, University of

New

Mexico

D. Keith Osborn, B.A., M.A., Ph.D.

Editorial

Art Director Mary-Ann Lupa, B.A.

Professor of Child Development,

Spencer G. Shaw,

Wilma Stevens, B.F.A.

B.S., B.L.S.

Artists

Research

Lenore Glanz, Ph.D., Head Frances Fu, M.S. Robert

Senior Artist

University of Georgia

Editorial Services

William Dobias, B.S.

Hamm,

M.L.S.-

Yogamani Leo Hamm, M.A.

Max

R. Kinsey, M.Ed. George McCallum, M.A. Marlyn A. Redoble. B.S.

Professor of Librarianship,

Margaret Smith, B.F.A.

University of Washington

Janice Wheeler

Arthur Witherell, B.A.

Design Director

Permissions Editor Mary Norton, M.A.

Ronald A. Staehowiak

Special Consultant for

The Indian Book

Production Artists Hans W. Bobzien

Field Studies Paul Rafferty, M.A., Director

Sue Wilson

Research Library

Merwyn

S.

Garbarino, Ph.D.

Photography Director

Indrani Embar, M.A.

Fred

Charlotte Friedman, M.A.

C.

Eckhardt.

Jr.

Professor of Anthropology, University of

Illinois at

Chicago Circle

Staff

Photographer

Stephen Hale

Photography Editing Director Ann Eriksen, M.A. Senior Photographs Eklitor Carol Parden

Anne

in L.S.,

Head

in L.S.

McKearn, M.A. in L.S. Katherine Tsang, M.A. in L.S. B.

Educational Services Assistant Director Susan Kilburg. B.B.A.

Educational Consultant Martha M. C. Ogilvie, M. Libr. Service Publications Eklitor

Don Newcomer, M.A.

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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