Everyday Life Among The American Indians 1800-1900

A perfect guide for writers students and historians! Everyday Life Among the American Indians corrects decades of misinformation with insightful accurate scholarship that belongs on the shelf of anyone interested in reading - or writing - the real story. Covering more than 500 tribes and including maps illustrations chronologies and detailed overviews of day-to-day life this invaluable reference for writers researchers and students is at once comprehensive and strikingly accessible. From the Louisiana Purchase to the Trail of Tears to Wounded Knee and beyond the author vividly portrays the disappearing cultures of nineteenth-century American Indians with dignity and in astonishing detail including information on: tribal leadership weaponry and warfare food and shelter tools and medicine languages customs religions and crime and punishment.