American Indian Calendar

United States American Indian Research  American Indian Calendar

The American Indian measured time by sun, moon stars and seasons. Each tribe or tribes in a region gave unique names to the months, moons or seasons.

For additional learning:

References:
In an appendices of This Day in North American Indian History,by Phil Konstantin, gives examples of North American Indian Calendars giving: Tribe, Month names, Moon names, Day names and Season names.


 * Konstantin, Phil. This Day in North American Indian History Important Dates in the History of North America's Native Peoples for Every Calendar Day. De Capo Press. C. 2002. ISBN 0-306-81170-7

A charted calendar may be found in ''Indians of the Southeast: Then and Now. ''by Jesse Clifton Burt and Robert B. Ferguson


 * Burt, Jesse Clifton and Robert B. Ferguson. Indians of the Southeast Then and Now