How Would You Survive as an American Indian?

by Scott Steedman

Book Overview

Describes the everyday life and customs of various Plains Indian tribes during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in North America. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0531153096
• ISBN13: 9780531153093
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Children's Press(CT)
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 8.5" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

How would you survive as an American Indian

I myself am an American Indian enthusiast. This was probably the best informational book on Indians that I have seen. It shows everything you would want to know and more. This is on the Plains Indians though not all indians. It has very good illastrations for what you are reading about. Half the stuff in it I never knew about, and I have read about every book on the American Indian.If you have a school report on the Plains Indians I do recomend getting this book. It teaches you about going on warparties to how you would wair your hair. Have fun reading!

great reference book

My 3rd grade son used this book as his main source for an American Indian home project for school. It was incredible how much information was packed into the book. I totally disagree with the editorial regarding this book. It is not over cluttered and the title is not offensive when you consider the book is telling a child how he or she would have lived as an American Indian from the climate, to what you'd eat, to what was inside the teepee and exactly how it was made. Also included how and when the American Indians migrated to North America from Asia, why and how they moved to survive, what a buffalo hunt was like and even their arts and crafts. It should be noted that the book concentrates on the Plains Indians. I spent about an hour researching childrens books at the bookstores and this was by far the most informative and best presented. My son was not at all interested in the American Indians, but after studying this book wanted to go back in time and live as they were when they roamed freely. Our family is proud of its American Indian ancestry, and this book did it justice. EXCELLENT! We'll be buying more books in the series.