Indians of the Plains
Indians of the Plains

Author: Robert Harry Lowie

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1982-01-01

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780803279070

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First published in 1954, Robert H. Lowie's Indians of the Plains surveys in a lucid and concise fashion the history and culture of the Indian tribes between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. The author visited various tribes from 1906 to 1931, observing them carefully, participating in their lifeways, studying their languages, and listening to their legends and tales. After a half century of study, Lowie wrote this book, praised by anthropologists as the synthesis of a lifetime's work. A preface by Raymond J. DeMallie situates the book in the history of American anthropology and describes information and changes in interpretation that have emerged since Indians of the Plains first appeared.

Plains Indians
Plains Indians

Author: Andrew Santella

Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library

Published: 2011-07

Total Pages: 49

ISBN-13: 1432949616

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This title teaches readers about the first people to live in the Plains region of North America. It discusses their culture, customs, ways of life, interactions with other settlers, and their lives today.

Plains Indians Regalia and Customs
Plains Indians Regalia and Customs

Author: Michael Bad Hand Terry

Publisher: Schiffer Publishing

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780764335365

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This original study of Plains Indian cultures of the 19th century is presented through the use of period writings, paintings, and early photography that relate how life was carried out. The author juxtaposes the sources with new research and modern color photography of specific replica items. The text documents the seven major tribes: Blackfeet, Cheyenne, Comanche, Crow, Hidatsa, Mandan, and Lakota. Observations of Plains Indian men's and women's habits include procuring food, dancing, developing spiritual beliefs, and experiencing daily life. Prominent leaders and average members of the tribes are introduced and major incidents are explained. True stories come to light through objects that relate to each incident and personality. With an understanding of these cultures, readers learn basic similarities of all people, ancient to present, including today's multi-cultural society.

Great Plains Indians
Great Plains Indians

Author: David J. Wishart

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 0803290934

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2017 Nebraska Book Awards Nonfiction: Reference David J. Wishart's Great Plains Indians covers thirteen thousand years of fascinating, dynamic, and often tragic history. From a hunting and gathering lifestyle to first contact with Europeans to land dispossession to claims cases, and much more, Wishart takes a wide-angle look at one of the most significant groups of people in the country. Myriad internal and external forces have profoundly shaped Indian lives on the Great Plains. Those forces--the environment, religion, tradition, guns, disease, government policy--have written their way into this history. Wishart spans the vastness of Indian time on the Great Plains, bringing the reader up to date on reservation conditions and rebounding populations in a sea of rural population decline. Great Plains Indians is a compelling introduction to Indian life on the Great Plains from thirteen thousand years ago to the present.

Plains Indians
Plains Indians

Author: Mir Tamim Ansary

Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library

Published: 2000-01-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781575729299

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Come along with us as we meet some of America's first peoples. Turn the pages of this book to discover what special fuel the Plains Indians used to make fires, how the Plains Indians could communicate without talking, and which Sioux chief's likeness is being carved into a mountain in South Dakota. Discover the traditional way of life of the Plains Indians and the changes brought to it by Europeans, discussing homes, clothing, games, crafts, and beliefs.

The Horse and the Plains Indians
The Horse and the Plains Indians

Author: Dorothy Hinshaw Patent

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 0547125518

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Tells of the transformative period in the early 16th century when the Spaniards introduced horses to the Great Plains, and how horses became, and remain, a key part of the Plains Indians' culture.

Costumes of the Plains Indians
Costumes of the Plains Indians

Author: Clark Wissler

Publisher:

Published: 1915

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13:

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The Comanches were fierce warriors who lived on the Southern Plains. The Southern Plains extend down from the state of Nebraska into the north part of Texas. The chief object of this 1915 volume is to shed light not just on the particular garments of Plains Indians, but on their material culture as a whole.

The Plains Indians
The Plains Indians

Author: Paul Howard Carlson

Publisher: College Station : Texas A&M University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 254

ISBN-13: 9780890968178

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Recounts the rise and fall of the Plains Indians from 1750 to 1890 and describes their way of life after contact with outsiders enabled them to adopt horses and firearms

American Plains Indians
American Plains Indians

Author: Jason Hook

Publisher: Osprey Publishing

Published: 2000-09-25

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781841761213

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The adoption of a horse culture heralded the golden age of the Plains Indians - an age that was abruptly ended by the intervention of the white man, who forced them from their vast homelands into reservations in the second half of the 19th century. Jason Hook's fascinating text explores the culture of the American Plains Indians, covering all aspects of their society from camp life to the art of war, in a volume packed with fascinating illustrations and photographs, including eight striking full page colour plates by Richard Hook.