Indigenous ingenuity : a celebration of traditional North American knowledge

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Title:

Indigenous ingenuity : a celebration of traditional North American knowledge

Author:

Havrelock, Deidre, author.

Kay, Edward, author.

Fuller, Kalila J., illustrator.

Summary:

Corn. Chocolate. Fishing hooks. Boats that float. Insulated double-walled construction. Recorded history and folklore. Life-saving disinfectant. Forest fire management. Our lives would be unrecognizable without these, and countless other, scientific discoveries and technological inventions from Indigenous North Americans. -- Amazon.

Audience:

Ages 8-12 Little, Brown and Company.

Edition:

First edition.

Contents:

Sustainable land and management and ecology -- Transportation -- Communications technology -- Agriculture and food technology -- Health sciences -- Textile technology, clothing, and fashion -- Architecture and civil engineering -- Hunting and combat technology -- Mathematics -- Arts, sports, and recreation -- Traditional ecological knowledge and our sustainable future.

Physical Description:

256 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Subject Term:

Ethnoscience.

Traditional ecological knowledge.

Indians of North America -- Social life and customs.

Author(s):

Kay, Edward,

Fuller, Kalila J.,

Publisher:

Christy Ottaviano Books ; Little, Brown and Company,

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