What was it like to grow up in the world of the pre-reservation Plains Indians before the coming of the white settlers? Prior to our modern era of television, video games, and computers how did American Indian children live, learn, and play? In this beautifully illustrated book, award-winning author, Michael Oren Fitzgerald, combines stunning photographs and simple quotations by Indian chiefs and elders to explain to today's youth what life would have been like growing up on the American plains. Children of the Tipi includes sections on boys and girls at play, camp life, and the important role of parents and grandparents. It features historical sepia photographs of children at work and play, as well as detailed color photographs of their toys, tools, and everyday objects.

 

This book is the winner of numerous awards. It was recognised in the Interior Design category by the Benjamin Franklin Award. It was recognised in the Nonfiction category by the Parents' Choice Award. It also was recognised in the Nonfiction category by the Midwest Book Award.

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by World Wisdom Books .

Michael Oren Fitzgerald is editor of numerous award-winning titles, including Indian Spirit: Revised and Enlarged and The Spirit of Indian Women. He is an acknowledged authority of the culture and religion of the Plains Indians, and has taught at Indiana University. He has two granddaughters and lives with his wife in Bloomington, IN.