Native American Survival Skills: How to Make Primitive Tools and Crafts from Natural Materials

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An expert’s step-by-step guide to authentic Native American crafts from clothing and headdresses to weapons and musical instruments.   W. Ben Hunt, whose Sioux name was Tasunka Witko, traveled throughout the Midwest, living with several Native American tribes, finally settling near the site of the last Sioux uprising. In Native American Survival Skills, Hunt provides step-by-step instructions and exact dimensions to make Sioux ghost shirts, Plains Indian shields, box traps, Iniut snowshoes, and more.   From making rawhide to putting the finishing touches on a pair of moccasins, beginners and seasoned woodsmen alike will enjoy making the tools and camp equipment that Native Americans used for centuries. Native American Survival Skills is a remarkable source of information about the Americans who first pioneered self-sufficient living. In it, there are lessons for all of us today.