Crafts and Skills of the Native Americans: Tipis, Canoes, Jewelry, Moccasins, and More

by David R. Montgomery

Here is a fascinating and practical illustrated guide to the skills that have made Native American famous worldwide as artisans and craftsmen.

Readers can replicate traditional Native American living by trying a hand at:

Native American skills and style are timeless, and the skills and projects here will appeal to a new generation either to explore their culture.

Genres: Nonfiction, Native American, Survival, Crafts, History

240 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Kurt]

Fairly straight-forward instructions. The author gives a relative description for each chapter and item. The drawings are very crude and would have been much more helpful if they were all drawn better. Also, there were some items which lacked scale and even a few that would have been better understood with some dimensions and measurements added. All in all, a good starter if one is interested in Native American lifestyles.

[Rowan Creech]

Interesting Book

This was a very detailed and interesting book on Native American crafting from tools to games. Very well descriptive with illustrations.

[April Brown]

What ages would I recommend it too? – Eight and up.

Length? – Most of a day’s read.

Characters? – None.

Setting? – Real World.

Written approximately? – 2009.

Does the story leave questions in the readers mind? – Yes. The color coded sections were interesting. In some places, colored pictures of the items would have been helpful. Some items lacked necessary information for the creation of the item.

Any issues the author (or a more recent publisher) should cover? Many. What are the size of the animal tracks? What c0olors were the jewelry? And many more.

Short storyline: Picture with some direction on object creation.

Notes for the reader: No secrets shared. It read like a kids let's play, create, and pretend manual. I had hoped for some better to use descriptively for writing purposes.

[Mckinley]

Interesting. How to with lots of drawings to accompany instructions.