The American Indian Craft Book

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Summary: Great book
Review: I loved this book! I am doing a project on Native Americans and it helped a lot. The craft instructions were a little hard to understand as it was not really geared toward kids, but the projects were very authentic (not to mention fun!) and I wholly recommend this book.

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Summary: NIce photos and diagrams, info on many tribal traditions
Review: This is a compact little book, with a moderate amount of photos and diagrams regarding American Indian artifacts. In addiition to giving instructions on how these artifacts were made and how modern reproductions may be made, the authors also explain their use and traditions involved with Indian crafts. One thing that I particularly liked was the emphasis on day to day life of the tribes, and how that was changed by the advent of the white man. A fun and informative chapter near the end of the book tells you how to say some common names and phrases in several languages used by the Delaware, Pawnee, and Dakota tribes, among others. There is also a brief section on sign language and mention of smoke signals. I thought this book was a good introduction for teachers, scout leaders, and other interested individuals to the Native American lifestyle, and was written in a sympathetic and quite readable style.