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| indians in the great plains: Great Plains Indians David J. Wishart, 2016 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. |
| indians in the great plains: Indians of the Great Plains Lisa Sita, 1997 Explore the lives and legends of the peoples who inhabited the Great Plains of the United States. |
| indians in the great plains: Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians David J. Wishart, 2007-03-01 Until the last two centuries, the human landscapes of the Great Plains were shaped solely by Native Americans, and since then the region has continued to be defined by the enduring presence of its Indigenous peoples. The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians offers a sweeping overview, across time and space, of this story in 123 entries drawn from the acclaimed Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, together with 23 new entries focusing on contemporary Plains Indians, and many new photographs. ø Here are the peoples, places, processes, and events that have shaped lives of the Indians of the Great Plains from the beginnings of human habitation to the present?not only yesterday?s wars, treaties, and traditions but also today?s tribal colleges, casinos, and legal battles. In addition to entries on familiar names from the past like Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, new entries on contemporary figures such as American Indian Movement spiritual leader Leonard Crow Dog and activists Russell Means and Leonard Peltier are included in the volume. Influential writer Vine Deloria Sr., Crow medicine woman Pretty Shield, Nakota blues-rock band Indigenous, and the Nebraska Indians baseball team are also among the entries in this comprehensive account. Anyone wanting to know about Plains Indians, past and present, will find this an authoritative and fascinating source. |
| indians in the great plains: Great Plains Ian Frazier, 2001-05-04 National Bestseller Most travelers only fly over the Great Plains--but Ian Frazier, ever the intrepid and wide-eyed wanderer, is not your average traveler. A hilarious and fascinating look at the great middle of our nation. With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bull's cabin, to an abandoned house once terrorized by Bonnie and Clyde, to the scene of the murders chronicled in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It is an expedition that reveals the heart of the American West. |
| indians in the great plains: Indians of the Great Plains Daniel J. Gelo, 2016-12-05 Plains Societies and CulturesIndians of the Great Plains, written by Daniel J. Gelo of The University of Texas at San Antonio, is a text that emphasizes that Plains societies and cultures are continuing, living entities. Through a topical exploration, it provides a contemporary view of recent scholarship on the classic Horse Culture Period while also bringing readers up-to-date with historical and cultural developments of the 20th and 21st centuries. In addition, it contains wide and balanced coverage of the many different tribal groups, including Canadian and southern populations. Teaching & Learning Experience: Improve Critical Thinking - Indians of the Great Plains provides recent scholarship and up-to-date historical and cultural developments of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries to see the Plains societies and cultures as continuing, living entities — including charts showing tribal organization and kinship systems. Engage Students — Indians of the Great Plains features excerpts of Native poetry, songs, and ethnographic accounts, as well as Chapter Summaries and End-of-Chapter Review Questions. |
| indians in the great plains: Encyclopedia of the Great Plains David J. Wishart, 2004-01-01 Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a region that has traditionally been poorly defined,' and they have |
| indians in the great plains: The Indians of the Great Plains Norman Bancroft-Hunt, 1981 A photographic study of the Sioux, Cheyenne, Mandan, and Arapaho explores their way of life, medicines, beliefs, and rituals |
| indians in the great plains: The Contested Plains Elliott West, 1998 Deftly retracing a pivotal chapter in one of America's most dramatic stories, Elliott West chronicles the struggles, triumphs and defeats of both Indians and whites as they pursued their clashing dreams of greatness in the heart of the continent. |
| indians in the great plains: Encounter on the Great Plains Karen Hansen, 2013-11 When Scandinavian immigrants and Dakota Indians lived side by side on a turn-of-the-century reservation, each struggled independently to preserve their language and culture. Despite this shared struggle, European settlers expanded their land ownership throughout the period while Native Americans were marginalized on the reservations intended for them. Karen Hansen captures this moment through distinctive, uniquely American voices. |
| indians in the great plains: Plains Indian Rock Art James D. Keyser, Michael Klassen, 2001 Archaeologist Keyser and Klassen share with readers the origins, diversity, and beauty of Plains rock art, with the hope of encouraging greater awareness and respect for this cultural tradition by society as a whole. Their guide covers the natural and archaeological history of the northwestern Plains; explains rock art forms, techniques, styles, terminology and dating; and suggests interpretations of images and compositions. The text is illustrated throughout with black-and-white photos, maps and drawings. The writing is serious, but accessible to the general reader. c. Book News Inc. |
| indians in the great plains: The Great Plains Indians Mary Englar, 2006 A brief introduction to Native American tribes of the Great Plains, including their social structure, homes, food, clothing, and traditions--Provided by publisher. |
| indians in the great plains: Reimagining Indians Sherry Lynn Smith, 2000 Reimagining Indians investigates a group of Anglo-American writers whose books about Native Americans helped reshape Americans' understanding of Indian peoples at the turn of the twentieth century. Hailing from the Eastern United States, these men and women traveled to the American West and discovered exotics in their midst. Drawn to Indian cultures as alternatives to what they found distasteful about modern American culture, these writers produced a body of work that celebrates Indian cultures, religions, artistry, and simple humanity. Although these writers were not academically trained ethnographers, their books represent popular versions of ethnography. In revealing their own doubts about the superiority of European-American culture, they sought to provide a favorable climate for Indian cultural survival in a world indisputably dominated by non-Indians. They also encouraged notions of cultural relativism, pluralism, and tolerance in American thought. For the historian and general reader alike, this volume speaks to broad themes of American cultural history, Native American history, and the history of the American West. |
| indians in the great plains: An Unspeakable Sadness David J. Wishart, 1995-06-01 Of all the interactions between American Indians and Euro-Americans, none was as fundamental as the acquisition of the indigenous peoples’ lands. To Euro-Americans this takeover of lands was seen as a natural right, an evolution to a higher use; to American Indians the loss of homelands was a tragedy involving also a loss of subsistence, a loss of history, and a loss of identity. Historical geographer David J. Wishart tells the story of the dispossession process as it affected the Nebraska Indians—Otoe-Missouria, Ponca, Omaha, and Pawnee—over the course of the nineteenth century. Working from primary documents, and including American Indian voices, Wishart analyzes the spatial and ecological repercussions of dispossession. Maps give the spatial context of dispossession, showing how Indian societies were restricted to ever smaller territories where American policies of social control were applied with increasing intensity. Graphs of population loss serve as reference lines for the narrative, charting the declining standards of living over the century of dispossession. Care is taken to support conclusions with empirical evidence, including, for example, specific details of how much the Indians were paid for their lands. The story is told in a language that is free from jargon and is accessible to a general audience. |
| indians in the great plains: Do You See what I Mean? Brenda Margaret Farnell, 1995-01-01 Plains Indian Sign Talk (PST), a complex system of hand signs, once served as the lingua franca among many Native American tribes of the Great Plains, who spoke very different languages. Here, Farnell reveals how PST is still an integral component of the stroytelling tradition in contemporary Assiniboine (Nakota) culture. |
| indians in the great plains: History's Shadow Steven Conn, 2008-09-15 Who were the Native Americans? Where did they come from and how long ago? Did they have a history, and would they have a future? Questions such as these dominated intellectual life in the United States during the nineteenth century. And for many Americans, such questions about the original inhabitants of their homeland inspired a flurry of historical investigation, scientific inquiry, and heated political debate. History's Shadow traces the struggle of Americans trying to understand the people who originally occupied the continent claimed as their own. Steven Conn considers how the question of the Indian compelled Americans to abandon older explanatory frameworks for sovereignty like the Bible and classical literature and instead develop new ones. Through their engagement with Native American language and culture, American intellectuals helped shape and define the emerging fields of archaeology, ethnology, linguistics, and art. But more important, the questions posed by the presence of the Indian in the United States forced Americans to confront the meaning of history itself, both that of Native Americans and their own: how it should be studied, what drove its processes, and where it might ultimately lead. The encounter with Native Americans, Conn argues, helped give rise to a distinctly American historical consciousness. A work of enormous scope and intellect, History's Shadow will speak to anyone interested in Native Americans and their profound influence on our cultural imagination. “History’s Shadow is an intelligent and comprehensive look at the place of Native Americans in Euro-American’s intellectual history. . . . Examining literature, painting, photography, ethnology, and anthropology, Conn mines the written record to discover how non-Native Americans thought about Indians.” —Joy S. Kasson, Los Angeles Times |
| indians in the great plains: The Indians of the great plains Norman Bancroft-Hunt, 1982 |
| indians in the great plains: Plains Indians Regalia and Customs Michael Bad Hand Terry, Bad Hand, 2010 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. |
| indians in the great plains: Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri Edwin Thompson Denig, 1961 Describes the customs and manners of five Missouri Indian tribes by the author who was a fur trader in Missouri for more than twenty years. |
| indians in the great plains: Real Indians Eva Marie Garroutte, 2003-07-31 In discussing a wide array of legal, biological, and sociocultural definitions, Eva Garroutte documents how these have frequently been manipulated by the federal government, by tribal officials, and by Indian and non-Indian individuals to gain political, social, or economic advantage. Whether or not one agrees with her solutions, anyone seriously concerned with contemporary American Indian issues should read this book.—Garrick Bailey, editor of The Osage and the Invisible World Real Indians is a remarkably candid, engaging, and compelling book. It tells the important and often controversial story of how 'Indian-ness' is negotiated in American culture by indigenous peoples, policy makers, and scholars.—Robert Wuthnow, author of Creative Spirituality Eva Marie Garroutte has done an exemplary job of combining scholarly sources, personal accounts, interview data, and self-reflection to catalog and examine the ways in which individual and collective identities are asserted, negotiated, and revitalized. She invites readers to imagine an intellectual space where scholarly and traditional ways of knowing and telling come face to face in an epistemological landscape where the ‘traditions’ of social science and 'radical indigenism' can confront one another in constructive dialogue.—Joane Nagel, author of Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality |
| indians in the great plains: North American Indian Tribes of the Great Lakes Michael G Johnson, 2012-02-20 This book details the growth of the European Fur trade in North America and how it drew the Native Americans who lived in the Great Lakes region, notably the Huron, Dakota, Sauk and Fox, Miami and Shawnee tribes into the colonial European Wars. During the French and Indian War, the American Revolution, and the War of 1812, these tribes took sides and became important allies of the warring nations. However, slowly the Indians were pushed westward by the encroachment of more settlers. This tension finally culminated in the 1832 Black Hawk's War, which ended with the deportation of many tribes to distant reservations. |
| indians in the great plains: The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Great Plains Loretta Fowler, 2003 From where--and what--does water come? How did it become the key to life in the universe? Water from Heaven presents a state-of-the-art portrait of the science of water, recounting how the oxygen needed to form H2O originated in the nuclear reactions in the interiors of stars, asking whether microcomets may be replenishing our world's oceans, and explaining how the Moon and planets set ice-age rhythms by way of slight variations in Earth's orbit and rotation. The book then takes the measure of water today in all its states, solid and gaseous as well as liquid. How do the famous El Niño and La Niña events in the Pacific affect our weather? What clues can water provide scientists in search of evidence of climate changes of the past, and how does it complicate their predictions of future global warming? Finally, Water from Heaven deals with the role of water in the rise and fall of civilizations. As nations grapple over watershed rights and pollution controls, water is poised to supplant oil as the most contested natural resource of the new century. The vast majority of water used today is devoted to large-scale agriculture and though water is a renewable resource, it is not an infinite one. Already many parts of the world are running up against the limits of what is readily available. Water from Heaven is, in short, the full story of water and all its remarkable properties. It spans from water's beginnings during the formation of stars, all the way through the origin of the solar system, the evolution of life on Earth, the rise of civilization, and what will happen in the future. Dealing with the physical, chemical, biological, and political importance of water, this book transforms our understanding of our most precious, and abused, resource. Robert Kandel shows that water presents us with a series of crucial questions and pivotal choices that will change the way you look at your next glass of water. |
| indians in the great plains: Costumes of the Plains Indians Clark Wissler, 1915 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. |
| indians in the great plains: Lakota America Pekka Hamalainen, 2019-10-22 The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America's history Named One of the New York Times Critics' Top Books of 2019 - Named One of the 10 Best History Books of 2019 by Smithsonian Magazine - Winner of the MPIBA Reading the West Book Award for narrative nonfiction Turned many of the stories I thought I knew about our nation inside out.--Cornelia Channing, Paris Review, Favorite Books of 2019 My favorite non-fiction book of this year.--Tyler Cowen, Bloomberg Opinion A briliant, bold, gripping history.--Simon Sebag Montefiore, London Evening Standard, Best Books of 2019 All nations deserve to have their stories told with this degree of attentiveness--Parul Sehgal, New York Times This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka Hämäläinen explores the Lakotas' roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America's great commercial artery, and then--in what was America's first sweeping westward expansion--as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains. The Lakotas are imprinted in American historical memory. Red Cloud, Crazy Horse, and Sitting Bull are iconic figures in the American imagination, but in this groundbreaking book they emerge as something different: the architects of Lakota America, an expansive and enduring Indigenous regime that commanded human fates in the North American interior for generations. Hämäläinen's deeply researched and engagingly written history places the Lakotas at the center of American history, and the results are revelatory. |
| indians in the great plains: Citizen Indians Lucy Maddox, 2005 By the 1890s, white Americans were avid consumers of American Indian cultures. At heavily scripted Wild West shows, Chautauquas, civic pageants, expositions, and fairs, American Indians were most often cast as victims, noble remnants of a vanishing race, or docile candidates for complete assimilation. However, as Lucy Maddox demonstrates in Citizen Indians, some prominent Indian intellectuals of the era--including Gertrude Bonnin, Charles Eastman, and Arthur C. Parker--were able to adapt and reshape the forms of public performance as one means of entering the national conversation and as a core strategy in the pan-tribal reform efforts that paralleled other Progressive-era reform movements.Maddox examines the work of American Indian intellectuals and reformers in the context of the Society of American Indians, which brought together educated, professional Indians in a period when the Indian question loomed large. These thinkers belonged to the first generation of middle-class American Indians more concerned with racial categories and civil rights than with the status of individual tribes. They confronted acute crises: the imposition of land allotments, the abrogation of the treaty process, the removal of Indian children to boarding schools, and the continuing denial of birthright citizenship to Indians that maintained their status as wards of the state. By adapting forms of public discourse and performance already familiar to white audiences, Maddox argues, American Indian reformers could more effectively pursue self-representation and political autonomy. |
| indians in the great plains: The Last Days of the Rainbelt David J. Wishart, 2020-04-01 Looking over the vast open plains of eastern Colorado, western Kansas, and southwestern Nebraska, where one can travel miles without seeing a town or even a house, it is hard to imagine the crowded landscape of the last decades of the nineteenth century. In those days farmers, speculators, and town builders flooded the region, believing that rain would follow the plow and that the Rainbelt would become their agricultural Eden. It took a mere decade for drought and economic turmoil to drive these dreaming thousands from the land, turning farmland back to rangeland and reducing settlements to ghost towns. David J. Wishart's The Last Days of the Rainbelt is the sobering tale of the rapid rise and decline of the settlement of the western Great Plains. History finds its voice in interviews with elderly residents of the region by Civil Works Administration employees in 1933 and 1934. Evidence similarly emerges from land records, climate reports, census records, and diaries, as Wishart deftly tracks the expansion of westward settlement across the central plains and into the Rainbelt. Through an examination of migration patterns, land laws, town-building, and agricultural practices, Wishart re-creates the often-difficult life of settlers in a semiarid region who undertook the daunting task of adapting to a new environment. His book brings this era of American settlement and failure on the western Great Plains fully into the scope of historical memory. |
| indians in the great plains: Changing Military Patterns of the Great Plains Indians (17th Century Through Early 19th Century) Frank Raymond Secoy, 1992-01-01 Frank Raymond Secoy wrote this classic work while at Columbia University in the early 1950s. In his introduction, John C. Ewers considers the influence of Secoy's book on scholars since its original publication in 1953. Ethnologist emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution, Ewers is the author of The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture (1955), Blackfeet: Their Art and Culture (1987), and other works. |
| indians in the great plains: Plains Indians Andrew Santella, 2011-07 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. |
| indians in the great plains: The Fur Trade of the American West David J. Wishart, 1992-01-01 In stressing the exploitation and destruction of the physical and human environment rather than the usual frontier romanticism, David Wishart has provided for students of the trans-Mississippi fur trade a valuable service.--Journal of the Early Republic. A standard reference work [that] should be required reading for all students of the American west.--Pacific Historical Review. The whole [fur trade] system is traced out from the Green River rendezvous or the Fort Union post to the trading houses of St. Louis and the auctions in New York and Europe. Such factors as capital formation, shifting commercial institutions, the role of advanced market information, and the nature, kinds, costs, and speed of transportation are all worked into the story, as is the relationship of the whole fur trade to national and international business cycles. This is an impressive achievement for a book so brief. . . . [It] opens out onto new methodological vistas and paradigms in western history.--William H. Goetzmann, New Mexico Historical Review David J. Wishart is a professor of geography at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He is the winner of the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize for distin-guished books in American geography, sponsored by the Association of American Geographers for An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians, also available from the University of Nebraska Press. |
| indians in the great plains: Crimsoned Prairie S. L. A. Marshall, 1984-08-22 This is the first study of the military tactics employed by the Plains Indians and the U.S. Army in their long war for the American frontier. The Indian Wars were sloppily fought, horribly mis-matched, absurdly wasteful; commanders hunted the Sioux to the accompaniment of brass bands--this apparently to raise troop morale--and reckless charges were more highly rewarded than getting the scouts out, checking communications, or maintaining supply lines. |
| indians in the great plains: The Plains Indians Paul Howard Carlson, 1998 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 |
| indians in the great plains: Rich Indians Alexandra Harmon, 2010-10-25 Long before lucrative tribal casinos sparked controversy, Native Americans amassed other wealth that provoked intense debate about the desirability, morality, and compatibility of Indian and non-Indian economic practices. Alexandra Harmon examines seven such instances of Indian affluence and the dilemmas they presented both for Native Americans and for Euro-Americans--dilemmas rooted in the colonial origins of the modern American economy. Harmon's study not only compels us to look beyond stereotypes of greedy whites and poor Indians, but also convincingly demonstrates that Indians deserve a prominent place in American economic history and in the history of American ideas. |
| indians in the great plains: Beauty, Honor and Tradition Joseph D. Horse Capture, George P. Horse Capture, National Museum of the American Indian (U.S.), 2001 Beauty, Honor, and Tradition: The Legacy of Plains Indian Shirts represents a powerful collaboration between two great museums - the National Museum of the American Indian/Smithsonian Institution, and The Minneapolis Institute of Arts - and two curators, father and son members of the A'aninin Indian Tribe of Montana. George P. Horse Capture, and his son, Joseph D. Horse Capture, bring different insights to this project as they explore new relationships among the shirts, the shirtmakers, the historians and scholars, and the audience of Indians and non-Indians alike.--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
| indians in the great plains: The Plains Indians Gaylord Torrence, 2014 In this exhibition, you will discover objects produced by 135 artists; objects that offer an unprecedented view of the continuity of the aesthetic traditions of the Plains Indians, from the 16th to the 20th century.--Musée du quai Branly brochure. |
| indians in the great plains: Indians in Unexpected Places Philip J. Deloria, 2004-10-18 Despite the passage of time, our vision of Native Americans remains locked up within powerful stereotypes. That's why some images of Indians can be so unexpected and disorienting: What is Geronimo doing sitting in a Cadillac? Why is an Indian woman in beaded buckskin sitting under a salon hairdryer? Such images startle and challenge our outdated visions, even as the latter continue to dominate relations between Native and non-Native Americans. Philip Deloria explores this cultural discordance to show how stereotypes and Indian experiences have competed for ascendancy in the wake of the military conquest of Native America and the nation's subsequent embrace of Native authenticity. Rewriting the story of the national encounter with modernity, Deloria provides revealing accounts of Indians doing unexpected things-singing opera, driving cars, acting in Hollywood-in ways that suggest new directions for American Indian history. Focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries--a time when, according to most standard American narratives, Indian people almost dropped out of history itself—Deloria argues that a great many Indians engaged the very same forces of modernization that were leading non-Indians to reevaluate their own understandings of themselves and their society. He examines longstanding stereotypes of Indians as invariably violent, suggesting that even as such views continued in American popular culture, they were also transformed by the violence at Wounded Knee. He tells how Indians came to represent themselves in Wild West shows and Hollywood films and also examines sports, music, and even Indian people's use of the automobile-an ironic counterpoint to today's highways teeming with Dakota pick-ups and Cherokee sport utility vehicles. Throughout, Deloria shows us anomalies that resist pigeonholing and force us to rethink familiar expectations. Whether considering the Hollywood films of James Young Deer or the Hall of Fame baseball career of pitcher Charles Albert Bender, he persuasively demonstrates that a significant number of Indian people engaged in modernity-and helped shape its anxieties and its textures-at the very moment they were being defined as primitive. These secret histories, Deloria suggests, compel us to reconsider our own current expectations about what Indian people should be, how they should act, and even what they should look like. More important, he shows how such seemingly harmless (even if unconscious) expectations contribute to the racism and injustice that still haunt the experience of many Native American people today. |
| indians in the great plains: Indians of the Plains Robert Harry Lowie, 1982-01-01 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. |
| indians in the great plains: The Arikara War William R. Nester, 2001 William Nester examines causes and effects of this little-known war, drawing the reader into the complex political and economic climate of the time. The Arikara War is a fine addition to the annals of Native American history, military history, and the history of the fur trade. |
| indians in the great plains: Thunder in the Mountains: Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War Daniel J. Sharfstein, 2017-04-04 “Beautifully wrought and impossible to put down, Daniel Sharfstein’s Thunder in the Mountains chronicles with compassion and grace that resonant past we should never forget.”—Brenda Wineapple, author of Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848–1877 After the Civil War and Reconstruction, a new struggle raged in the Northern Rockies. In the summer of 1877, General Oliver Otis Howard, a champion of African American civil rights, ruthlessly pursued hundreds of Nez Perce families who resisted moving onto a reservation. Standing in his way was Chief Joseph, a young leader who never stopped advocating for Native American sovereignty and equal rights. Thunder in the Mountains is the spellbinding story of two legendary figures and their epic clash of ideas about the meaning of freedom and the role of government in American life. |
| indians in the great plains: Cahokia Timothy R. Pauketat, 2010-07-27 The fascinating story of a lost city and an unprecedented American civilization located in modern day Illinois near St. Louis While Mayan and Aztec civilizations are widely known and documented, relatively few people are familiar with the largest prehistoric Native American city north of Mexico-a site that expert Timothy Pauketat brings vividly to life in this groundbreaking book. Almost a thousand years ago, a city flourished along the Mississippi River near what is now St. Louis. Built around a sprawling central plaza and known as Cahokia, the site has drawn the attention of generations of archaeologists, whose work produced evidence of complex celestial timepieces, feasts big enough to feed thousands, and disturbing signs of human sacrifice. Drawing on these fascinating finds, Cahokia presents a lively and astonishing narrative of prehistoric America. |
| indians in the great plains: American Plains Indians Jason Hook, 2000-09-25 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. |
| indians in the great plains: Life Among the Great Plains Indians Earle Rice, Jr., 1998 Describes the everyday life of the Native Americans living on the Great Plains before the coming of the Europeans, covering their religion, social customs, government, and art. |
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians - JSTOR
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Paleo-Indians left a scant "trail" throughout the Great Plains. Geographer Vance Hollidayhas estimated that archeologists have found rou£hly two Paleo-Indian camPsites for each century …
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history of Plains Indians and horses has become a quintessential American epic. A sweeping story of cultural collision and fusion, it tells how the obscure foot nomads of the Great Plains …
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abstract— We identifi ed prolonged dry (or drought) events during the 1777 to 1869 interval that were depicted in Native Amer-ican annual pictographic records (winter counts) from several …
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up the St. Lawrence River, through the Great of Indians to make maps and of the character Lakes, and from the head of Lake Superior via istics and functions of the maps that they are …
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These case studies in cultural anthropology are designed to bring to students, in beginning and intermediate courses in the social sciences, insights into the richness and complexity of …
Socio-Ecological Profiles of Great Plains - JSTOR
The Great Plains frontier in the late nineteenth century was remarkably cosmopolitan. Alongside Native Americans, now con-fined to ever-shrinking reservations, and Hispanic descendents of …
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians - JSTOR
the Great Plains Indians provide a comprehensive introduction into subject matter that has been limited geographically (the Great Plains which run through the United States and Canada) and ethnically (the Great Plains Indians).
The Inter-Tribal Balance of Power on the Great Plains, 1760-1850
This paper considers the Plains Indians in their heyday and examines inter tribal trade and warfare at a time when the spread of horses and guns was causing great upheavals in native power structures.
Indians In The Great Plains (Download Only) - netsec.csuci.edu
Indians in the Great Plains: A Comprehensive Overview Indians in the Great Plains: a diverse tapestry of tribes, each with unique cultures, languages, and histories, shaped by their adaptation to the challenging and rewarding environment of the Great Plains. They developed sophisticated ways of life centered around hunting, agriculture, and trade,
Plains Indians the beliefs and way of life, changes and destruction
Plains Indians – Sioux Indian tribe was based on the Great Plains of North America. Wovoka Key People President Jackson – Signed Indian Removal Act. Red Cloud – Respected Sioux War Chief. Little Crow – Dakota Sioux Chief. Killed 600 settlers. Colonel Chivington – Led 700 cavalry massacre 130 Plains Indians.
How Did the Indians Solve the Problems of Living on the Great Plains?
the Indians to survive the harsh climate of the Great Plains because in winter the Plains could get very cold due to it being a vast open space with no natural wind breaks or sheltered spots. The shape of the tipi also helped the Native Americans to solve another problem with living on the plains. The tipi is a cone
Great Plains Indians - University of Nebraska–Lincoln
States, only the Southwest matches the Great Plains as an Indian region, however measured. The census map shows two distinct belts of Indians in the American Great Plains. On the northern Great Plains, the populations of many counties within, or around, reservations are more than 8 percent Indian. Many other counties nearby
Plains Indian Studies - Smithsonian Institution
Plains tradition in Iowa, George C. Prison on Paleo-Indian winter subsistence strategies, and Dennis J. Stanford on a review of the evidence for the early presence of man in the New World.
01 The early settlement of the West, c1835–c1862
The Great Plains • Understand the ways of life of the Plains Indians. • Understand the Plains Indians’ beliefs about land and nature, and their attitudes to war and property. • Understand the US government support for westward expansion and the signifi cance of the Permanent Indian Frontier (c1834) and the Indian Appropriations Act (1851).
INTRODUCTION CHAPTER - Cambridge University Press
widespread views of the native people of the Plains focus on the period of intense interaction between Euroamericans and Plains Indians in the eighteenth and, particularly, nineteenth centuries, an interval that was dramatically different from …
Native American Landscapes 3 in the Plains and Northwest Coast
3.1.1 Indians of the Great Plains The Sioux were the third largest tribe in the United States in 2000, having a tribal population of 108,272, and their num-bers had grown to 112,176 in 2010. When considering per-sons who also claimed other ancestry, the Sioux numbered 170,010 in 2010, the largest group in the Great Plains, but
GREAT PLAINS NATIVE AMERICAN - JSTOR
message to Plains Indians than to those in the tains. River travelers today also see the Gates mountains or coastal regions because much of as the place at the foot of the mountains where the Great Plains had recently been claimed by the Great Plains has been left behind.12 the United States in the Louisiana Purchase.
THE CONTESTED PLAINS: INDIANS, GOLDSEEKERS, AND THE …
important in understanding the Great Plains’ past and are quite familiar to the more recent works of plains historians. But as settlers expanded west looking for gold, God, or land, and as American Indian peoples worked to exploit these relationships …
Reconstructing the Great Plains: The Long Struggle for …
In 1846, there had been about 150,000 Indians in California; thirty years later, 30,000 survived.3 The Civil War era now appears a formative phase in a long history of Native American dispossession and genocide that both preceded and fol-lowed the war.
Paleo-Indians - University of Nebraska–Lincoln
Paleo-Indians left a scant "trail" throughout the Great Plains. Geographer Vance Hollidayhas estimated that archeologists have found rou£hly two Paleo-Indian camPsites for each century of their currently documented 2-..40o-year-longmy in the Great Plains. In the Southern High Flaim this means that there isore Paleo-Indiancampsite
The Rise and Fall of Plains Indian Horse Cultures - JSTOR
history of Plains Indians and horses has become a quintessential American epic. A sweeping story of cultural collision and fusion, it tells how the obscure foot nomads of the Great Plains encountered and embraced the peculiar Old World export and, renowned horse cultures, personified in the iconic figure of the mounted warrior.
Historical Drought Events of the Great Plains Recorded by Native …
abstract— We identifi ed prolonged dry (or drought) events during the 1777 to 1869 interval that were depicted in Native Amer-ican annual pictographic records (winter counts) from several documents for a retrospective analysis with supplementary data and information.
“THE INDIANS MUST YIELD”: ANTEBELLUM FREE LAND, THE …
claimed land well into the 1930s, mainly in the Great Plains and Far West, but also the Deep South and Great Lakes regions. It is not a discovery of critical historians that the Homestead Act allowed these settlers to take over the ancestral lands of Native nations. Even when the law was still under debate in the U.S. House of
INDIAN MAPS: THEIR PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF PLAINS …
up the St. Lawrence River, through the Great of Indians to make maps and of the character Lakes, and from the head of Lake Superior via istics and functions of the maps that they are the St. Louis River to Leech Lake in central known to have made.
THE CHEYENNES Indians of the Great Plains
These case studies in cultural anthropology are designed to bring to students, in beginning and intermediate courses in the social sciences, insights into the richness and complexity of human life as it is lived in different ways and in different places.
Socio-Ecological Profiles of Great Plains - JSTOR
The Great Plains frontier in the late nineteenth century was remarkably cosmopolitan. Alongside Native Americans, now con-fined to ever-shrinking reservations, and Hispanic descendents of 3 R. Douglas Hurt, The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century (Tucson, 201 1);
