INDEX

Aleut, 47

Algonquians, 14, 17, 21

Apache, 34–36

Arctic, 43, 44, 47

Atlantic Ocean, 14

Canada, 43

Caribbean Sea, 23, 26

Caribs, 27

Cayuse, 50

Central America, 53, 54

Cheyenne, 40

Cora, 40

Creeks, 25

Delawares, 21

“Descent of the Gods,” 56

Europeans, 35, 53

Great Plains, 33, 36–41

Guyohkohnyoh (Cayuga), 13

Haida, 47–50

Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), 13–21

Hopi, 33–34

Incas, 53–54

Inuit, 43–47

Kanienkahagen (Mohawk), 13

Lakota Sioux, 37

Latin America, 53

Maya, 53, 54–57

Mexico, 53

Mi’kmaq, 14

Native American families adoption, 46–47

caste system, 54

clan, 9, 14, 18, 23, 24, 33, 38, 47–48

extended family, 9, 14, 26–27, 28–31, 35, 43, 56

intertribal family, 14

kin groups, 27

nuclear family, 9, 14, 24, 25–26, 34, 40–41, 43, 53

phratries, 47

North America, 14, 23, 33, 50, 51

Onayotekaono (Oneida), 13

Onondowahgah (Seneca), 13

Onundagaono (Onondaga), 13

Pawnee, 33

Salish, 51

Seminoles, 30

Sioux, 33, 40

Ska-Ruh-Reh (Tuscarora), 13

South America, 53

Spanish, 33

Sun God, 54

Tainos, 23, 24, 26–27, 31

Three Sisters, 13, 17

Timucua, 26

United States, 43

Youth’s Vigil, 21

Zuñi, 33