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Comprehensive account of Shawnee culture including musical notations of Shawnee songs, maps, and heirloom photographs.

Reviews

“James H. Howard is one of the most enthusiastic and competent contemporary ethnographers describing the North American Native experience… [Shawnee!] is an enlightening and even exciting picture of a fascinating people.”
*The American Indian Quarterly*

“Long known for his anthropological reports and cultural studies of native religion, especially the southeastern ceremonial complex, Howard brings seasoned expertise and veteran scholarship to this intricate topic. The result is as close to a definitive treatment as we are likely to get.”
*Religious Studies Review*

“This valuable edition to the literature on the American Indian will be a useful reference for anthropologists, historians, and Americanists. It is a scholarly work, yet is certainly within the range of the many educated laypersons who pursue American Indian studies.”
*Choice*

“James Howard … has published a classic ethnography on the former eastern Native American group (the Shawnee), focusing on their ceremonialism.”
*Plains Anthropologist*

“An excellent analytical and descriptive treatment of the principle cultural traits of the Shawnees, together with their more important ceremonial expressions.”
*Journal of the West*

“Although this volume contains much material on ceremonialism, new and old, among the Shawnee, it is more than a book on Shawnee ceremonialism. It is a well-researched monograph on Shawnee culture…. This is a very fine work on a little known but important tribe.”
*Ethnos*

“James H. Howard provides a welcome descriptive ethnography of contemporary Shawnee ceremonialism… Howard’s knowledge of Shawnee rituals based on ethnographic fieldwork is impressive.”
*Ethnohistory*