Book Description
Cultures and daily life of the Comanche, Pawnee, and other tribes of the southern Great Plains.
Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 20,53 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN :
Cultures and daily life of the Comanche, Pawnee, and other tribes of the southern Great Plains.
Author : Henry Woodhead
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 1995-07-01
Category :
ISBN : 9780614060119
Author : Stan Hoig
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,8 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806124636
Few people who cross the Great Plains today recollect that for centuries the land was a battleground where Indian nations fought one another for their own survival and then stood bravely against the irrepressible forces of white civilization. Even among those aware of the history, Plains Indian conflicts have been seen largely in terms of American conquest. In this readable narrative history, well-known Indian historian Stan Hoig tells how the native peoples of the southern plains have struggled continually to retain their homelands and their way of life. Tribal Wars of the Southern Plains is a comprehensive account of Indian conflicts in the area between the Platte River and the Rio Grande, from the first written reports of the Spaniards in the sixteenth century through the United States-Cheyenne Battle of the Sand Hills in 1875. The reader follows the exploits and defeats of such chiefs as Lone Wolf, Satanta, Black Kettle, and Dull Knife as they signed treaties, led attacks, battled for land, and defended their villages in the huge region that was home to the Wichitas, Comanches, Cheyennes, Arapahos, Kiowas, Osages, Pawnees, and other Indian nations. Unlike many previous studies of the Plains Indian wars, this one-volume synthesis chronicles not only the Indian-white wars but also the Indian-Indian conflicts. Of central importance are the intertribal wars that preceded the arrival of the Spaniards and continued during the next three centuries, particularly as white incursions on the north and east forced tribes from those regions onto the Great Plains. Stan Hoig details the numerous battles and the major treaties. He also explains the warrior ethic, which persists even among Plains Indian veterans today; the dual societal structure of peace and war chiefs within the tribes, in which both sometimes acted at cross-purposes, much the same as the U.S. government and frontier whites; techniques and tactics of Plains Indian warfare; and the role of medicine men, the Sun Dance, and spirituality in Plains warfare. This is a perfect introduction to an important era in the Indian history of North America by an acknowledged expert.
Author : William H. Leckie
Publisher : Norman : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 43,28 MB
Release : 1963
Category : History
ISBN :
A history of the many conflicts between the U.S. Army and Indian tribes of the South Plains. A detailed examination of the military actions taken against the Comanches, Kiowas, Kiowa-Apaches, Southern Cheyennes, and Arapahoes in various conflicts throughout the Southern Plains.
Author : Dick Swift
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 45,92 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Author : Howard L. Meredith
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,13 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN :
"This unique book combines linguistics, history, archaeology, and anthropology into a whole overview of the development of tribal alliances and self-governance through time. No other scholar addresses so successfully and so well the imagery of political and historical issues through dance". -- C. Blue Clark, author of Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock.
Author : Dick Swift
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 13,58 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Author : Charles J. Brill
Publisher :
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Author : William K. Powers
Publisher :
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 35,22 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Describes the history and customs of the various Indian tribes from the southern plains of the United States.
Author : David La Vere
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,4 MB
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806132990
examines relations between Southeastern Indians who were removed to Indian Territory in the early nineteenth century and Southern Plains Indians who claimed this area as their own. These two Indian groups viewed the world in different ways. The Southeastern Indians, primarily Choctaws, Cherokees, Creeks, Chickasaws, and Seminoles, were agricultural peoples. By the nineteenth century they were adopting American "civilization": codified laws, Christianity, market-driven farming, and a formal, Euroamerican style of education. By contrast, the hunter-gathers of the Southern Plains-the Comanches, Kiowas, Wichitas, and Osages-had a culture based on the buffalo. They actively resisted the Removed Indians' "invasion" of their homelands. The Removed Indians hoped to lessen Plains Indian raids into Indian Territory by "civilizing" the Plains peoples through diplomatic councils and trade. But the Southern Plains Indians were not interested in "civilization" and saw no use in farming. Even their defeat by the U.S. government could not bridge the cultural gap between the Plains and Removed Indians, a gulf that remains to this day.