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1) Meet Christopher: an Osage Indian boy from Oklahoma

Author

Simermeyer, Genevieve

Publisher

National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution, in association with Council Oak Books

Pub. Date

c2008

Language

English

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Celebrates the Osage Indian tribal culture through the daily life of Christopher Cote.

2) Do all Indians live in tipis?: questions and answers from the National Museum of the American Indian

Publisher

Collins, in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution

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Language

English

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Answers questions about Native Americans, including those related to identity, origins and history, animals and land, language and education, love and marriage, and culture.

3) Woven by the grandmothers: nineteenth-century Navajo textiles from the National Museum of the American Indian = Nihimásáni deiztłʼǫ́

Publisher

Smithsonian Institution Press in association with the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution

Pub. Date

c1996

Language

English

4) A song for the horse nation: horses in Native American cultures

Publisher

Fulcrum Pub

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English

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Presents an illustrated examination of the role of horses in Native American culture and history, providing information on the depiction of horses in tribal clothing, tools, and other objects.

5) The year the stars fell: Lakota winter counts at the Smithsonian

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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

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English

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Publisher description: Winter counts, pictorial calendars by which Plains Indians kept track of their past, marked each year with a picture of a memorable event. The widespread Lakota, or Western Sioux, recorded many different events in their winter counts, but all include "the year the stars fell," the spectacular Leonid meteor shower of 1833-34. This volume is an unprecedented assemblage of information on the important collection of Lakota winter...