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Alaskan Americans
From: Cultures of Color in America

Economic and social conditions, contemporary.
From: The Encyclopedia of Native American Economic History

Hawaiian Americans
From: Cultures of Color in America

Human Habitation in the Environment: Live and Let Live
From: Nature and the Environment in Pre-Columbian American Life

Inuit
From: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life

Native American Kinship Systems
From: Family Life in Native America

Native Americans
From: Cultures of Color in America

The Far West: Great Basin and California
From: Daily Life in Pre-Columbian Native America

The Pacific Northwest Coast
From: Daily Life in Pre-Columbian Native America

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From: Daily Life in Pre-Columbian Native America

The Southwest
From: Daily Life in Pre-Columbian Native America

A Pomo family. (Courtesy of the Library of Congress.)

Walking Buffalo family, Canadian Plains, ca. 1920s–1930s. National Archives of Canada/C-026442.

Genealogical research will require you to study your own family unit as well as those of your ancestors. Consider how family groupings have changed over the generations. Above, a family sits outside of their traditional mud-and-stick home on a New Mexico reservation in 1967.

A Native American woman watches over her grandchildren in 1944. Storytelling is a traditional Native American method of passing down wisdom through the generations. Your own elders may be valuable sources of family lore.