Author : Andrew Santella
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 2011-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1432949616
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.
Author : David J. Wishart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 47,58 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0803290934
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.
Author : Mir Tamim Ansary
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781575729299
Come along with us as we meet some of America's first peoples. Turn the pages of this book to discover what special fuel the Plains Indians used to make fires, how the Plains Indians could communicate without talking, and which Sioux chief's likeness is being carved into a mountain in South Dakota. Discover the traditional way of life of the Plains Indians and the changes brought to it by Europeans, discussing homes, clothing, games, crafts, and beliefs.
Author : Clark Wissler
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
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.
Author : Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 16,64 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0547125518
Tells of the transformative period in the early 16th century when the Spaniards introduced horses to the Great Plains, and how horses became, and remain, a key part of the Plains Indians' culture.
Author : Jason Hook
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 2000-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781841761213
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.
Author : Bernard Mishkin
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 28,59 MB
Release : 1940
Category : Indian warfare
ISBN :
Author : Michael Bad Hand Terry
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Decorations of honor
ISBN : 9780764335365
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.
Author : Paul Howard Carlson
Publisher : College Station : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 26,40 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780890968178
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
Author : David J. Wishart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 29,94 MB
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0803298625
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.
