American Indians: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

American Indians, credited to Frederick Starr, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of American Indians by Frederick Starr. Read in English by Mario Pineda School students is Starr's intended audience of this work. The easy-to-read stories discuss and describe a wide range of topics such as food, money exchange, dances, hunting, dress, war, burials. Over two-dozen North American tribes are reviewed in the book. - Summary by Mario Pineda

Recording facts

• Recording title: American Indians
• Author credits: Frederick Starr
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 33
• Listed recording duration: 5:10:34

Catalogue topics

• american indians
• indigenous customs

Opening tracks: first 24 of 33

1. 01 - Preface. - I. Some General Facts About Indians — 11:03
2. 02 - II. Houses — 9:11
3. 03 - III. Dress — 8:56
4. 04 - IV. The Baby and Child — 8:59
5. 05 - V. Stories of Indians — 11:53
6. 06 - VI. War — 8:40
7. 07 - VII. Hunting and Fishing — 9:48
8. 08 - VIII. The Camp-Fire — 9:00
9. 09 - IX. Sign Language on the Plains — 8:45
10. 10 - X. Picture Writing — 8:43
11. 11 - XI. Money — 10:14
12. 12 - XII. Medicine Men and Secret Societies — 7:35
13. 13 - XIII. Dances and Ceremonials — 10:28
14. 14 - XIV. Burial and Graves — 8:55
15. 15 - XV. Mounds and Their Builders — 11:43
16. 16 - XVI. The Algonkins — 10:02
17. 17 - XVII. The Six Nations — 10:19
18. 18 - XVIII. Story of Mary Jemison — 9:36
19. 19 - XIX. The Creeks — 9:23
20. 20 - XX. The Pani — 9:09
21. 21 - XXI. The Cherokees — 9:56
22. 22 - XXII. George Catlin and His Work — 9:18
23. 23 - XXIII. The Sun Dance — 8:33
24. 24 - XXIV. The Pueblos — 9:58

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