Title First houses : Native American homes and sacred structures / Jean Guard Monroe and Ray A. Williamson ; illustrated by Susan Johnston Carlson.

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Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1993.

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Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Children's Department	J 299.7 MONROE	Check Shelf
Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction	299.72 MONROE	Check Shelf

Description	ix, 147 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-147) and index.
Summary	Presents a variety of North American Indian creation myths and discusses how the "first houses" described in these myths set the pattern used by the tribes for their own homes and ritual structures. This superb book about Native American architecture is filled with information about Iroquois longhouses, Navajo hogans, Pawnee earth lodges, and Northwest Coast dwellings. Truly entertaining for the mind and spirit, it uses scholarship and mythology to teach young people about Native American houses and structures from around the country.
Contents	People of the Longhouse: The Iroquis league -- Gift of the Gods: The Navajo Hogan -- Emergence from the Underworld: The Pueblo Kiva -- Shade and shelter: Mohave houses -- Sun's crystal house: California house myths -- Painted planks and Totem poles: Northwest coast dwellings -- Painted tipis: House legends of the plains -- Models of the world: Pawnee earth lodges -- Big house: A Delaware ceremonial dwelling -- First sweatlodge.
Study Program	Accelerated Reader AR MG 6.8 7.0 10064.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Dwellings.
Subject	Indians of North America -- Folklore.
	Indians of North America -- Dwellings -- Juvenile literature.
	Indians of North America -- Dwellings.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Folklore.
Subject	Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies -- Juvenile literature.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Dwellings -- Juvenile literature.
Subject	Creation -- Folklore.
	Sacred space -- North America -- Juvenile literature.
	Indians of North America -- Rites and ceremonies.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Rites and ceremonies.
Subject	Sacred space -- North America.
Local Subject	Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Rites and ceremonies -- Juvenile literature.
Added Author	Williamson, Ray A., 1938-
	Carlson, Susan Johnston, illustrator.
ISBN	0395510813: $14.95 FPT

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