This comprehensive review of Native American life skills covers collecting and preparing plant foods and medicines; hunting animals; creating and transporting fire; and crafting tools, shelter, clothing, utensils, and other devices. Step-by-step instructions and 145 detailed diagrams enable the reader to duplicate native methods using materials available in local habitats. A new foreword, introduction, and index complement the practical information offered.
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Peter Goodchild is the author of The Spark in the Stone and Raven Tales and is a lifelong student of Native American skills and culture. He lives in Toronto, Canada.
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19 of 22 people found the following review helpful:
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Reads like an 8th graders report,
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This book fails to provide any details that are worth while.
Each food resource consists of a list of tribes that used that genus (species not differentiated). No details provided on method of harvesting nor required processing. Another major section provids drawing of traditional clothing such as mocasins. Many different styles of mocasins are prepresented, but no discussion is made about the pros and cons of various designs. While interesting from a historical aspect, this is not a reference for survival skills. The details of any skills are iced over in favor of descriptioin of that was.
16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent Resource for Native American Skills,
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This is a very thorough, extensive book, covering nearly all aspects of Native American Living and Skills, I have yet to come across another book that is filled with such PRACTICAL information relating to wilderness survival skills as practiced by the Indian tribes of North America. I find that the author goes as in-depth as possible to explain how to apply the skills practically and efficiently, and easily. Peter Goodchild includes well-drawn sketches in most of the chapters, to go along with the written information on exactly how the skills are and were performed. This is the kind of book that I would recommend for someone serious about wilderness living, and/or someone wanting to easily learn the most practical native skills that were used for everyday life in the bush. In conclusion, this book is highly reccomended!
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good book,
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this book includes some very interesting things. a very good book.
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The North American Indians used about fifteen hundred species of plants as food, though relatively few were regarded as important. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cambium eaten, spiral stitch, inner gunwales, fingertip method, entire bark, twined baskets, false frame, berries eaten, cockpit rim, stems eaten, aboriginal times, shoots eaten, striking platform, species alien, nuts eaten, coiled baskets, inner bark, summer dwelling, fruit eaten, crushed roots, caribou hides, forked pole, horizontal poles, conchoidal fracture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northwest Coast, North America, United States, Great Basin, Great Lakes, Alaskan Eskimos, Indians of the Southwest, Plains Indians, British Columbia, Old World, The Meskwaki, California Indians, Subarctic Indians, New World, South America, Indians of the Subarctic, The Paiutes, Central America, The Cherokee, The Shoshone, Other California, Rocky Mountain, The Eastern Cree, The Miwok of California New!
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The North American Indians used about fifteen hundred species of plants as food, though relatively few were regarded as important. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
cambium eaten, spiral stitch, inner gunwales, fingertip method, entire bark, twined baskets, false frame, berries eaten, cockpit rim, stems eaten, aboriginal times, shoots eaten, striking platform, species alien, nuts eaten, coiled baskets, inner bark, summer dwelling, fruit eaten, crushed roots, caribou hides, forked pole, horizontal poles, conchoidal fracture Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Northwest Coast, North America, United States, Great Basin, Great Lakes, Alaskan Eskimos, Indians of the Southwest, Plains Indians, British Columbia, Old World, The Meskwaki, California Indians, Subarctic Indians, New World, South America, Indians of the Subarctic, The Paiutes, Central America, The Cherokee, The Shoshone, Other California, Rocky Mountain, The Eastern Cree, The Miwok of California New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Surprise Me!
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- Alaskan Eskimos by Wendell Oswalt in Back Matter
- Northern Shoshone by Robert H. Lowie in Back Matter
- Material Culture of the Blackfoot Indians by Clark Wissler in Back Matter
- The Crow Indians (Second Edition) by Robert H. Lowie in Back Matter
- Menomini Indians (Landmarks in Anthropology) by Walter J. Hoffman in Back Matter
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- Survival Skills of Native California by Paul Campbell in Back Matter
- Guide to Wild Foods and Useful Plants by Christopher Nyerges in Back Matter
- Desert Survivor: An Adventurer's Guide to Exploring the Great American Desert by John Annerino in Back Matter
- Lewis and Clark for Kids: Their Journey of Discovery with 21 Activities (For Kids series) by Janis Herbert in Back Matter
- More Than Moccasins: A Kid's Activity Guide to Traditional North American Indian Life (A Kid's Guide series) by Laurie Carlson in Back Matter
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