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

by W. Ben Hunt

Overview

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. Here he 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 were 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781629145976
Publisher:	Skyhorse
Publication date:	04/21/2015
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	261,392
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

W. Ben Hunt, born at the close of the nineteenth century, spent many years roaming the Midwest and living occasionally with Native American tribes. The line drawings he made on such excursions preserved the Native American’s survival techniques. An author of more than twenty books, he died in 1970.