What the White Race May Learn from the Indian: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

What the White Race May Learn from the Indian, credited to George Wharton James, 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 What the White Race May Learn from the Indian by George Wharton James. Read in English by Roger Melin People learn from other people, and races have forever learned from other races. Herein we are treated to an in-depth understanding of categorized social characteristics of the Native American peoples, primarily those of the western U.S. as they existed at the time of book publication (1908). 'In dealing with [the Native Americans] as a race, a people, therefore, I do as I would with my own race, I take what to me seem to be racial characteristics, or in other words, the things that are manifested in the lives of the best men and women, and which seem to represent their habitual aims, ambitions, and desires.' - Summary by Roger Melin & book foreword

Recording facts

• Recording title: What the White Race May Learn from the Indian
• Author credits: George Wharton James
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 29
• Listed recording duration: 7:17:19

Catalogue topics

• Native American
• american indian
• social science
• lifestyle

Opening tracks: first 24 of 29

1. 00 - Foreword — 6:11
2. 01 - The White Race and Its Treatment of the Indian — 22:41
3. 02 - The White Race and Its Civilization — 19:23
4. 03 - The Indian and Nasal and Deep Breathing — 17:02
5. 04 - The Indian and Out-of-Door Life — 41:15
6. 05 - The Indian and Sleeping Out of Doors — 13:44
7. 06 - The Indian as a Walker, Rider, and Climber — 22:05
8. 07 - The Indian in the Rain and the Dirt — 19:37
9. 08 - The Indian and Physical Labor — 6:51
10. 09 - The Indian and Physical Labor for Girls and Women — 11:01
11. 10 - The Indian and Diet — 20:47
12. 11 - The Indian and Education — 24:17
13. 12 - The Indian and Hospitality — 22:23
14. 13 - The Indian and Certain Social Traits and Customs — 10:09
15. 14 - The Indian and Some Luxuries — 24:18
16. 15 - The Indian and the Sex Question — 13:00
17. 16 - The Indian and Her Baby — 20:36
18. 17 - The Indian and the Sanctity of Nudity — 14:17
19. 18 - The Indian and Frankness — 5:28
20. 19 - The Indian and Repining — 5:13
21. 20 - The Indian and the Superfluities of Life — 14:05
22. 21 - The Indian and Mental Poise — 19:34
23. 22 - The Indian and Self-Restraint — 12:20
24. 23 - The Indian and Affectation — 7:17

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