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This vividly illustrated collection of John Canfield Ewers's writings presents studies first published in American Indian Art Magazine and other periodicals between 1968 and 1992. Tracing the history of the pictorial art of Plains peoples from images on rock surfaces to the walls of modern museums, the essays reflect the principal interests of this pioneering scholar of ethnohistory: the depiction of tribal life and ritual, individual war honors,...
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Author Andrews, like the great Nez Perce Chief Joseph, believes in letting the people be heard -- the people who saw and knew the Indian of the vast Northern Plains. To them, the white settlers who were caught between an inept government policy and the bewildered Indians, he dedicates this book of eyewitness accounts. In 1868, army wife Margaret Carrington accompanied her husband's troops on a journey to Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, Land of the Crows, and wrote of...
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For the Plains Indians, the period from 1750 to 1890, often referred to as the traditional period, was an evolutionary time. Horses and firearms, trade goods, shifting migration patterns, disease pandemics, and other events associated with extensive European contact led to a peak of Plains Indian influence and success in the early nineteenth century. Ironically, that same European contact ultimately led to the devolution of traditional Plains Indian...
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Covering a wide range of topics, this volume presents case studies which focus on particular aspects of the female condition in Plains Indian societies, mostly concentrated on tribal groups in the northern Plains region of the United States and Canada. The focus is primarily historical, dealing with the conditions of Plains Indian women in the pre-reservation period, but also contains selections concerned with the role and status of women in the modern...
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"The selections that follow pertain to images of the Indian that emerged at a crucial point in the history of Indian-white relations. After the Civil War, the nation turned its attention to the West as an area of economic opportunity. A transcontinental railroad, various pieces of land legislation, and an army with nothing else to do-these things and more besides, heralded the American intention to fill out the continent. The Indian was an obstacle...
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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 Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, together with 23 new entries focusing on contemporary Plains...
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"An intimate portrait of the last surviving Comanche Eagle doctor! Life histories are an excellent means of crosscultural understanding. In detailing the life of a Comanche medicine woman who wanted her methods recorded, Jones demonstrated such an intense interest in her training and experiences as a shaman that Sanapia not only accepted him as a valued biographer but also adopted him as a son. Readers will enjoy this intimate portrait of the last...
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"A profound sense of history has long compelled Indian peoples of the Great Plains to chronicle their lives pictorially. As the nineteenth century progressed, the trickle of white explorers and traders across the continent and up the great rivers turned into a veritable flood tide of soldiers and settlers. Their presence changed Plains life irrevocably. Plains Indians adopted a new medium for recording their visual histories, obtained through their...
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