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Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools: The Complete Guide to Making and Using Traditional Tools

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Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, And Survival Tools is the definitive instructional guide to making Native American tools and weapons. Author Monte Burch takes the reader through all the steps of the basic flint knapping of arrowheads and scrapers to the most complex decorating and finishing techniques of painting and fletching. Of special interest are the chapters dedicated to materials, tools, and the workplace. Readers will learn how to make digging tools, axes, knives, spear points, arrowheads, baskets, harpoons, fish traps, blow guns, tomahawks, traps, lances, shields, and so much more. Enhanced throughout with photographs and line illustrations, Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, And Survival Tools will make an enduringly popular addition to any personal, academic or community library's Native American Studies Collections and is especially recommended reading for survivalists, authors of western novels seeking authenticity in their history backgrounds, and students of Native American history and artifacts.

I was dissapointed after reading this book.
Must detail was missing and I was left asking many questions.

"A Guide to Manufacturing Native Replicas with Modern Tools" might be a more accurate title. Nothing new offered here, just skimpy information that lacks many details and has the feel of material skimmed from other, more informative books. Birch clearly has experience with some of the skills yet his ability to translate knowledge to paper is lacking. Someone who knows what they are doing can fill in the often large gaps in the information, but then they don't need the book, do they? I always look for the one piece of new information that merits the purchase of a book and was hard pressed to find one here. I should add that Burch is a "professional" author and writes from that vantage point rather than from that of a practitioner of the skills he covers.

I enjoyed the book immensely- chock full of illustrations and pictures. Very straight forward tips on creating edged stone weapons and bows.

I was surprised at the detail I found in this book's instructions. You can build anything form bows and arrows to fish traps. My daughters and I caught a fish within one hour of our camping trip. This is a great book for scouts and outdoorsman alike.

I like the book very much. I've been wanting to learn to knapp fpr some time and have looked at many books and this one is the best I've found. The illustrations are good and the intructions are easy to understand and Mr. Burch guides with a love for the skills he teaches.

Making Native American Hunting, Fighting, and Survival Tools: The Complete Guide to Making and Using Traditional Tools

This book is great for potential projects or from a historical point of view. I own a couple other of Monte's books, this one is like the others, well written, concise, very informative.

I bought this book as a resource to learn a little bit more about practical home-made tools, specifically the Cherokee style blow dart gun. It mentions this process and finished product but not in the detail it does for making arrowheads (flintknapping) and crating up a long bow. If your looking for a book for ether of those things including making shafts for arrows this is it. I'm glad I bought the book overall, its much thicker than I originally anticipated as well which was another plus. I rated it only as a 3 because of my anticipation for a more in depth section on weapons. I would buy it again however

I got this book as a present and I really enjoyed it. I loved the parts about bow and arrows and I'm excited to start making my own. The only thing that I thought it lacked was it didn't have all the Native American tools that I was interested in making but over all I enjoyed the book and am glad that I recieved it.

This book was purchased by and for my 11-year old son. He is fascinated with Indians in general, as well as arrowheads, bow and arrows, machetes, etc. that Indians used. He has really enjoyed this book, using it as a guide to make his own "tools". I have found interesting and crafty stuff all over the house!