The Animals Came Dancing: Native American Sacred Ecology and Animal Kinship

by Howard L. Harrod

Book Overview

The Native American hunter had a true appreciation of where his food came from and developed a ritual relationship to animal life--an understanding and attitude almost completely lacking in modern culture. In this major overview of the relation between Indians and animals on the northern Great Plains, Howard Harrod recovers a sense of the knowledge that hunting peoples had of the animals upon which they depended and raises important questions...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816520275
• ISBN13: 9780816520275
• Release Date: February 2000
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.67 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"