Audiobooks Essays & Short Works What the White Race May Learn from the Indian
What the White Race May Learn from the Indian

What the White Race May Learn from the Indian

by George Wharton JAMES (1858 - 1923)

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


Conclusion

Foreword

The Indian and Affectation

The Indian and Art Work

The Indian and Certain Social Traits and Customs

The Indian and Diet

The Indian and Education

The Indian and Frankness

The Indian and Her Baby

The Indian and Hospitality

The Indian and Immortality

The Indian and Mental Poise

The Indian and Nasal and Deep Breathing

The Indian and Out-of-Door Life

The Indian and Physical Labor

The Indian and Physical Labor for Girls and Women

The Indian and Religious Worship

The Indian and Repining

The Indian and Self-Restraint

The Indian and Sleeping Out of Doors

The Indian and Some Luxuries

The Indian and the Sanctity of Nudity

The Indian and the Sex Question

The Indian and the Superfluities of Life

The Indian as a Walker, Rider, and Climber

The Indian in the Rain and the Dirt

The White Race and Its Civilization

The White Race and Its Treatment of the Indian

Visiting the Indians