Societies of the Plains Indians
Author: Clark Wissler
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 1094
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Author: Clark Wissler
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 1094
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Howard Carlson
Publisher: College Station : Texas A&M University Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780890968178
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecounts 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
Author: David J. Wishart
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 0803290934
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2017 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.
Author: Clark Wissler
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Published: 1916
Total Pages: 1282
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Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall
Published: 1973
Total Pages: 400
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the religious organizations and the ceremonies that characterized each of the 35 Indian nations.
Author: Robert Harry Lowie
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1982-01-01
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780803279070
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst 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.
Author: Thomas E. Mails
Publisher: Marlowe & Company
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781569246733
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the religious organizations and the ceremonies that characterized the thirty-five Indian nations of the Great Plains.
Author: William C. Meadows
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2012-11-08
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 080618602X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWarrior culture has long been an important facet of Plains Indian life. For Kiowa Indians, military societies have special significance. They serve not only to honor veterans and celebrate and publicize martial achievements but also to foster strong role models for younger tribal members. To this day, these societies serve to maintain traditional Kiowa values, culture, and ethnic identity. Previous scholarship has offered only glimpses of Kiowa military societies. William C. Meadows now provides a detailed account of the ritual structures, ceremonial composition, and historical development of each society: Rabbits, Mountain Sheep, Horses Headdresses, Black Legs, Skunkberry /Unafraid of Death, Scout Dogs, Kiowa Bone Strikers, and Omaha, as well as past and present women’s groups. Two dozen illustrations depict personages and ceremonies, and an appendix provides membership rosters from the late 1800s. The most comprehensive description ever published on Kiowa military societies, this work is unmatched by previous studies in its level of detail and depth of scholarship. It demonstrates the evolution of these groups within the larger context of American Indian history and anthropology, while documenting and preserving tribal traditions.
Author: Jason Hook
Publisher: Osprey Publishing
Published: 2000-09-25
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781841761213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Edwin Thompson Denig
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1961
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9780806113081
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the customs and manners of five Missouri Indian tribes by the author who was a fur trader in Missouri for more than twenty years.