Native American courtship and marriage
By: Leslie Gourse.
Contributors: Gourse, Leslie.
Publisher: Native Voices
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Summertown, TN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Indians of North America -- Marriage customs and rites; Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies; Indians of North America -- Clothing; Courtship -- United States -- History
Description: "Author Leslie Gourse has created a helpful guide for adapting and incorporating traditional Native American marriage customs into today's modern weddings. Descriptions of weddings of the Hopi, Lakota, Iroquois, Oglala, and others provide a historic sense of Native traditions. Book jacket."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rev. ed. of: Native American courtship and marriage traditions. c2000.
Table of contents: title: Overview and introduction; title: Literature : love poems and folklore; title: Introduction to tribal wedding customs; title: Wedding customs : the Hopi; title: Wedding customs : the Navajo; title: Wedding customs : the story of an Eastern Cherokee bride and Minnesota Sioux bridegroom; title: Wedding customs : the Iroquois; title: Wedding customs : the Oglala Sioux; title: Celebrations of puberty; title: Dances and powwows; title: Food; title: Fashions, jewelry, basketry, cloth weaving, and decorations; title: Postscript : divorce and remarriage.