Children of the Turtle: Word Sketches of the Native Peoples of Turtle Island - Couverture rigide

Jacques L Condor Aka Maka Tei Meh

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0595751814 ISBN 13 : 9780595751815

Editeur : iUniverse, 2003

Synopsis

From Aztec to Zuni, here are portraits of the daily lives of the First Nations people who lived and still live on the continent of North America; the great floating island the Northeastern woodland tribes called Turtle Island. Songs, chants and legends from the tip of southern Mexico to Alaska and Arctic Canada are included. Covering a time span of a thousand years, the book includes tribes now decimated or who are a nearly forgotten and rarely mentioned part of history.

This book of word-sketches paints a picture of their world: at times harsh and cruel, at other times spiritual and filled with beauty. These word-sketches convey the humanness of the original inhabitants of Turtle Island, the Native American Indians; paints them as neither noble nor savage, but simply as people who learned to live with nature's challenges and hardships and to endure.

To read these portraits of tribes and individuals, their land and customs, their needs, both physical and spiritual, is to understand the magnificent heritage that is the gift to the world from Native American Indian people.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: iUniverse
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0595751814
• ISBN 13: 9780595751815
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 172
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible