Indians of North America
Life Among the Great Plains Indians
Author: Earle Rice
Publisher:
ISBN: 1560063475
Category: Indians of North America
Page: 116
View: 555
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.
Social Science
Indians of the Great Plains
Author: Daniel J. Gelo
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781351718127
Category: Social Science
Page: 428
View: 492
This book provides a thorough and engaging study of Plains Indian life. It covers both historical and contemporary aspects and contains wide and balanced treatment of the many different tribal groups, including Canadian and southern populations. Daniel J. Gelo draws on years of ethnographic research and emphasizes that Plains societies and cultures are continuing, living entities. The second edition has been updated to take account of recent developments and current terminology. The chapters feature a range of illustrations, maps, and text boxes, as well as summaries, key terms, and questions to support teaching and learning. It is an essential text for courses on Indians of the Great Plains and relevant for students of anthropology, archaeology, history, and Indigenous studies.
History
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains
Author: David J. Wishart
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803247877
Category: History
Page: 962
View: 287
"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
History
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians
Author: David J. Wishart
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803298620
Category: History
Page: 263
View: 556
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. ΓΈ 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.
History
Great Plains Indians
Author: David J. Wishart
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803290938
Category: History
Page: 162
View: 148
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.
Great Plains
The Great Plains Indians
Author: Mary Englar
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 0736843159
Category: Great Plains
Page: 28
View: 224
"A brief introduction to Native American tribes of the Great Plains, including their social structure, homes, food, clothing, and traditions"--Provided by publisher.
History
Changing Military Patterns of the Great Plains Indians (17th Century Through Early 19th Century)
Author: Frank Raymond Secoy
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803292090
Category: History
Page: 136
View: 772
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 of North America
Indians of the Great Plains
Author: Kevin P. Supples
Publisher:
ISBN: LCCN:98071876
Category: Indians of North America
Page: 68
View: 100
Tells the history and cultures of the Plains Indians, including everyday life and activities of these tribes up to the present day.
Indians of North America
The Indians of the Great Plains
Author: Norman Bancroft-Hunt
Publisher: William Morrow
ISBN: UOM:39015015278966
Category: Indians of North America
Page: 136
View: 523
Describes the way the plains Indians lived, their medicines and mysteries, and their war and hunting rituals.
Indians
Indians of the Great Plains
Author: Lisa Sita
Publisher: Running Press Book Publishers
ISBN: 0762400730
Category: Indians
Page: 68
View: 768
Explore the lives and legends of the peoples who inhabited the Great Plains of the United States.
History
The Plains Indians
Author: Paul Howard Carlson
Publisher: TAMU Press
ISBN: UOM:39015046902881
Category: History
Page: 282
View: 186
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
Social Science
The Dream Seekers
Author: Lee Irwin
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806128933
Category: Social Science
Page: 326
View: 444
In The Dream Seekers, Lee Irwin demonstrates the central importance of visionary dreams as sources of empowerment and innovation in Plains Indian religion. Irwin draws on 350 visionary dreams from published and unpublished sources that span 150 years to describe the shared features of cosmology for twenty-three groups of Plains Indians. This comprehensive work is not a recital but an understandable exploration of the religious world of Plains Indians. The different means of acquiring visions that are described include the spontaneous vision experience common among Plains Indian women and means such as stress, illness, social conflict, and mourning used by both men and women to obtain visions. Irwin describes the various stages of the structured male vision quest as well as the central issues of unsuccessful or abandoned quests, threshold experiences during a vision, and the means by which religious empowerment is attained and transferred.