Author : Margaret M. Wheat
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874174538
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Book Synopsis Survival Arts Of The Primitive Paiutes by : Margaret M. Wheat
Download or read book Survival Arts Of The Primitive Paiutes written by Margaret M. Wheat and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With over 24,000 copies in print, this bestselling book tells how the Paiutes survived in the harsh Nevada climate. Chronicling food-gathering methods, basket weaving, hunting, skinning, and working with rabbit skins, this book serves as an invaluable reference on early Paiute culture. Any inquiring person who has worked with the Native Americans of the West will testify to the difficulties of obtaining the information he seeks. They are an old and proud and reserved race, and acceptance of outsiders is not freely given. In her twenty years of painstaking work with the Northern Paiutes, Margaret Wheat earned that full measure of acceptance. She tells the story of the generation of Native Americans whose lives were changed forever by the arrival of pioneers and prospectors in 1849.