Books with title North American Indians

A coloring album depicting many of the North American Indian tribes. On the left page is a history of the tribe and on the right page is a beautiful illustration of the life of that tribe. The tribes covered in the album include: Iroquois, Seminole, Chippewa, Sioux, Pawne, Cherokee, Blackfoot, Nez Perce, Haida, Pomo, Rio Grand Pueblos, Zuni, Apache, Hopi and Navajo.

American Indian sign language was used mainly by the tribes of the Great Plains. The sign language was based on simple gestures that the Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Sioux, and other Plains tribes understood. By speaking with their hands, people without a common tribal language could communicate with each other easily. Now you and your friends can use some of the sign language from this book to communicate silently. Find out how fast and fun it is to talk with your hands.

Whether my bones are to rest in this great valley, or west of the Cordilleras, or the Rocky Mountains, I know not. I shall often think of the silver Iosco, the farther I go from it. To use a native metaphor, My foot is on the path, and the word, is onward! "The spider taketh hold with her hands," Solomon says, "and is in king's palaces." Truly, a man should accomplish, by diligence, as much as a spider.Pittsburgh was, even then, a busy manufacturing town, filled with working machinery, steam engines, hammers, furnaces, and coal smoke. I visited Mr. O'Hara, and several other leading manufacturers. They made glass, bar iron, nails, coarse pottery, castings, and many other articles, which filled its shops and warehouses, and gave it a city-like appearance. Every chimney and pipe, perpendicular or lateral, puffed out sooty coal smoke, and it required some dexterity to keep a clean collar half a day. I met ladies who bore this impress of the city, on their morning toilet. I took lodgings at Mrs.