Children of the Tipi: Life in the Buffalo Days

Description

What was it like to grow up in the world of the pre-reservation Plains Indians before the coming of the white settlers? Prior to our modern era of television| video games| and computers how did American Indian children live| learn| and play? In this beautifully illustrated book| award-winning author| Michael Oren Fitzgerald| combines stunning photographs and simple quotations by Indian chiefs and elders to explain to today s youth what life would have been like growing up on the American plains.
Children of the Tipi includes sections on boys and girls at play| camp life| and the important role of parents and grandparents.
It features historical sepia photographs of children at work and play| as well as detailed color photographs of their toys| tools| and everyday objects.”