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Stars above, earth below : American Indians and nature  Cover Image Book Book

Stars above, earth below : American Indians and nature / edited by Marsha C. Bol.

Bol, Marsha. (Added Author). Carnegie Museum of Natural History. (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 1570981981 (hc)
  • ISBN: 9781570981982 (hc)
  • Physical Description: 272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Niwot, Colo. : Roberts Rinehart Publishers for Carnegie Museum of Natural History, c1998.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Native American attitudes to the environment / N. Scott Momaday -- Distributed power: an overview. A theme in American Indian origin stories / Gregory Schrempp -- Tlingit origin stories / Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer -- Four American Indian origin stories: Lakota, Seneca, Jicarilla Apache, and Tlingit -- American Indian astronomy: an overview / Ray A. Williamson -- Animals in American Indian life: an overview / Sandra L. Olsen -- Ethno-ornithology of the Zuni / Edmund James Ladd -- Ecology, conservation, and the buffalo jump / Shepard Krech III -- American Indian plant use: an overview / Frances B. King -- The sacred cedar tree of the Kwakwaka'wakw people / Daisy Sewid-Smith and Chief Adam Dick, interviewed by Nancy J. Turner -- Corn Man and Tobacco Woman in Pima cosmology / Amadeo M. Rea -- Nature as a model for American Indian societies: an overview / Marsha C. Bol -- Origins: through Tewa eyes / Alfonso Ortiz.
Subject: Indian philosophy > North America.
Indians of North America > Religion.
Human ecology > North America.
Indians of North America > Science.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Northwest Indian College.

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  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library E 98 .P5 S73 1998 253024 Stacks Available -
Lummi Library PNW E 98 .P5 S73 1998 285592 PNW Reshelving -


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