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The animals came dancing : Native American sacred ecology and animal kinship  Cover Image Book Book

The animals came dancing : Native American sacred ecology and animal kinship

Summary: In this major overview of the relationship between Indians and animals on the northern Great Plains, the author recovers a sense of the knowledge that hunting peoples had of the animals upon which they depended and raises important questions about Euroamerican relationships with the natural world.

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  • ISBN: 0816520267 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780816520268 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0816520275 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780816520275 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: print
    xxv, 170 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c2000.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [153]-163) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 1. Northern Plains hunters -- 2. In the beginning there were animals -- 3. The gift of animals -- 4. Animal rituals on the Northern Plains -- 5. Renewing the animals -- 6. Humans and animals in the twenty-first century.
Subject: Indians of North America Hunting Great Plains
Indians of North America Great Plains Religion
Human-animal relationships Great Plains
Siksika Indians Hunting
Siksika Indians Religion

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  • 2 of 2 copies available at Northwest Indian College.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library QL 85 .H37 2000 250354 Stacks Reshelving -
Lummi Library QL 85 .H37 2000 679692 Stacks Available -

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