Leo T. reviewed How Would You Survive As an American Indian (How Would You Survive ? Ser.)) on + 1775 more book reviews
This is a very detailed book about Indians all over the present USA (numerous details offered in a sentence or two beside a small illustration, the pages being festooned with such) and well suited for upper elementary students (or third graders that are very interested). The reader is also engaged by a question per page in the corner. The book is largely about American Indians after acquiring the horse but before there is much European contact. Relationships are covered in detail: "If a boy and girl are in love their parent may let them pick berries together." Your Family, After the Hunt. The activities and skills of daily living are explained.
They fail to mention basketry. All through the 20th C. my family used baskets great-grandma traded for with a Chehalis lady--they are well made. At the start of the century she lived in a nearby cabin and they traded because she wanted clothes made or altered on a treadle sewing machine--a good deal both ways. See 'Honne, Spirit of the Chehalis' for more information about those people; grandma worked for the author's dad in the teens and twenties.
They fail to mention basketry. All through the 20th C. my family used baskets great-grandma traded for with a Chehalis lady--they are well made. At the start of the century she lived in a nearby cabin and they traded because she wanted clothes made or altered on a treadle sewing machine--a good deal both ways. See 'Honne, Spirit of the Chehalis' for more information about those people; grandma worked for the author's dad in the teens and twenties.
