Stars above, earth below : American Indians and nature / edited by Marsha C. Bol.

"This collection of essays describes how American Indians think about the natural world by examining creation stories of the various Native groups, their rituals and myths, their hunting and farming methods and their ways of using the gifts of Mother Earth."--BOOK JACKET.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Other Authors: Bol, Marsha
Language:English
Published: Niwot, Colo. : Roberts Rinehart Publishers for Carnegie Museum of Natural History, [1998], ©1998.
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Physical Description:272 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Native American attitudes to the environment / N. Scott Momaday
  • Distributed power: an overview. A theme in American Indian origin stories / Gregory Schrempp
  • Tlingit origin stories / Nora Marks Dauenhauer and Richard Dauenhauer
  • Four American Indian origin stories: Lakota, Seneca, Jicarilla Apache, and Tlingit
  • American Indian astronomy: an overview / Ray A. Williamson
  • Animals in American Indian life: an overview / Sandra L. Olsen
  • Ethno-ornithology of the Zuni / Edmund James Ladd
  • Ecology, conservation, and the buffalo jump / Shepard Krech III
  • American Indian plant use: an overview / Frances B. King
  • The sacred cedar tree of the Kwakwaka'wakw people / Daisy Sewid-Smith and Chief Adam Dick, interviewed by Nancy J. Turner
  • Corn Man and Tobacco Woman in Pima cosmology / Amadeo M. Rea
  • Nature as a model for American Indian societies: an overview / Marsha C. Bol
  • Origins: through Tewa eyes / Alfonso Ortiz.