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Native American courtship and marriage traditions / by Leslie Gourse.
- Title
- Native American courtship and marriage traditions / by Leslie Gourse.
- Author
- Gourse, Leslie.
- Publication
- New York : Hippocrene Books, c2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | N.A.SOC. G 744 n | Off-site |
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- Description
- vi, 178 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "Author Leslie Gourse has created a helpful guide for adapting and incorporating traditional Native American marriage customs into today's modern weddings. Descriptions of weddings of the Hopi, Lakota, Iroquois, Oglala, and others provide a historic sense of Native traditions. Book jacket."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [163]-165) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Literature: love poems and folklore -- Introduction to tribal wedding customs -- Tribal wedding customs: the Hopi -- Tribal wedding customs: the Navajo -- Tribal wedding customs: the story of an Eastern Cherokee bride and a Minnesota Sioux bridegroom -- Tribal wedding customs: the Iroquois -- Tribal wedding customs: the Oglala Sioux -- Celebrations of puberty -- Dances and powwows -- Food -- Fashions, jewelry, basketry, cloth weaving, and decorations -- Postscript: divorce and remarriage.
- ISBN
- 0781807689
- LCCN
- ^^^99055832^
- OCLC
- 42772276
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library