TY - BOOK AU - Feest,Christian F. AU - Bender,Cora TI - The Cultures of native North Americans SN - 3829029853 U1 - 970.004 PY - 2000/// CY - Cologne PB - Könemann KW - Indians of North America KW - History KW - Fiction KW - 18th century KW - South Dakota KW - Pictorial works N1 - English translation of: Kulturen der Nordamerikanischen Indianer; Includes bibliographical references and index; Origins and past of indigenous North America -- Arctic -- Subarctic -- Northeast -- Southeast -- Prairies and plains -- Plateau -- Northwest coast -- Great Basin -- California -- Southwest -- Present and future of indigenous North America N2 - The world of the buffalo hunters, the Pueblo people, the fishermen of the Pacific rainforests and many other cultural groups are resurrected in this book. Everyday life is portrayed - the totems, rituals, observances, shamans, holy clowns, hostilities, food gathering - in detail, and ethnologists explain the amazing diversity of culture ER -