A collection of one-hundread and forty-six traditions (myths) of the Arapaho of the Southern and Northern Arapaho Indians collected by Dorsey and Kroeber.
Tells how various articles connected with Indian life were made and used. Some subjects included are Indian music, games, dances, and food. Grades 6-8.
... Almost all of the second volume of this edition is given over to the catalogue of plants, making it an important piece of American natural history." -- William Reese Company catalog 347 "The Streeter Sale Revisited Fifty Years Later."
Partial summary. Plates in first edition were not used in second edition. Plate following page 132 of text reproduces letter from Agnes, "11 year old Flathead" Indian pupil, about life at the Sisters' school at St. Ignatius Mission.
The plates in the first edition were not used in the second edition. The plate following page 132 of the text reproduces a letter from Agnes, an 11 year old Flathead girl, about life at the Sisters' school at the St. Ignatius Mission.
"Frederic Homer Balch was the first Pacific Northwest fiction writer to cast Native Americans as major characters and the first to celebrate the region's geography in a novel.
A journey from Philadelphia, down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to the Arkansas, continuing across Arkansas to the interior of the modern Oklahoma, returning via the Arkansas and Mississippi Rivers, and then to New Orleans.