Native American courtship and marriage traditions

Summary: "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.

Record details

ISBN: 0781807689
ISBN: 9780781807685
Physical Description: print
vi, 178 pages ; 23 cm.
Publisher: New York : Hippocrene Books, c2000.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-165) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Literature: love poems and folklore -- Introduction to tribal wedding customs -- Tribal wedding customs: the Hopi -- Tribal wedding customs: the Navajo -- Tribal wedding customs: the story of an Eastern Cherokee bride and a Minnesota Sioux bridegroom -- Tribal wedding customs: the Iroquois -- Tribal wedding customs: the Oglala Sioux -- Celebrations of puberty -- Dances and powwows -- Food -- Fashions, jewelry, basketry, cloth weaving, and decorations -- Postscript: divorce and remarriage.