American Indians
By: by Frederick Starr
Series: Ethno-geographic reader -- no. 2; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Ethno-geographic reader -- no. 2.; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: D.C. Heath & Company
Published: 1899
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Copyright date: 1898
Subjects: Indians of North America; Juvenile literature; Indians of Mexico; Mayas
Notes: With the exception of chapters XXXI and XXXII, the work is devoted to Indians north of Mexico.

"This book about American Indians is intended as a reading book for boys and girls in school"--Preface.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
Table of contents: title: Some general facts about Indians; title: Houses; title: Dress; title: The baby and child; title: Stories of Indians; title: War; title: Hunting and fishing; title: The Camp-fire; title: Sign language on the plains; title: Picture writing; title: Money; title: Medicine men and secret societies; title: Dances and ceremonials; title: Burial and graves; title: Mounds and their builders; title: The Algonkins; title: The Six Nations; title: Story of Mary Jemison; title: The Creeks; title: The Pani; title: The Cherokees; title: George Catlin and his work; title: The Sun Dance; title: The Pueblos; title: The Snake Dance; title: Cliff dwellings and the ruins of the Southwest; title: Tribes of the Northwest Coast; title: Some Raven stories; title: Totem posts; title: Indians of California; title: The Aztecs; title: The Mayas and the ruined cities of Yucatan and Central America.