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Forward by Elizabeth A. H. John.
Author : George Amos Dorsey
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 14,26 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780806127781
Forward by Elizabeth A. H. John.
Author : George A.. Dorsey
Publisher :
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 16,89 MB
Release : 1901
Category :
ISBN :
Author : George A. Dorsey
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2014-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781498049191
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1904 Edition.
Author : George Amos Dorsey
Publisher : Washington, Carnegie Institution of Washington
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 17,14 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Folklore
ISBN :
Author : Susan a. Holland
Publisher :
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781939054401
The Wichita Indians shared the Great Plains, in the central United States, with a variety of animals, including millions of bison, elk, and birds. The Wichita built their homes of poles and prairie grass, which grew up to 12 feet tall. These unique, beehive-shaped grass houses were exclusive to the Wichita, housed extended families, and could last up to 14 years. Tools, fashioned from chert and bison bones, were used to construct homes and cultivate garden plots.
Author : Foster Todd Smith
Publisher : Centennial the Association of
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 23,51 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN :
Smith relates the political history of the two tribes, details life and agricultural work on the reservation, chronicles federal attempts to introduce an education system to the Indians, and traces the effect of hostile tribes and unscrupulous whites on the reservation experiment. Using primary documents, he traces the history of the Wichitas and Caddos through the Civil War, when they were forced to take refuge in Union-controlled Kansas, to the sharing of reservation land with their former enemies, the Kiowas and Comanches. He describes in detail the efforts of the two tribes to adapt to white ways, developing a life within the confines of the reservation experience that borrowed from Euro-American culture while retaining many of their own traditions.
Author : Stan Hoig
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,46 MB
Release : 2011-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 082634156X
Before she was Wichita, Kansas, she was a collection of grass huts, home to the ancestors of the Wichita Indians. Then came the Spanish conquistadors, seeking gold but finding instead vast herds of buffalo. After the Civil War, Wichita played host to a cavalcade of Western men: frontier soldiers, Indian warriors, buffalo hunters, border ruffians, hell-for-leather Texas cattle drovers, ready-to-die gunslingers, and steel-eyed lawmen. Peerless Princess of the Plains, they called her. Billy the Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Bat Masterson were here, but so were Jesse Chisholm, Jack Ledford, Rowdy Joe and Rowdy Kate, Buffalo Bill Mathewson, Marshall Mike Meagher, Indian trader James Mead, Oklahoma Harry Hill, city founder Dutch Bill Greiffenstein, and a host of colorful characters like you've never known before. Stan Hoig depicts a once-rambunctious cowtown on the Chisholm Cattle Trail, neighbor to the lawless Indian Territory, roaring and bucking through its Wild West days toward becoming a major American city. Cowtown Wichita and the Wild, Wicked West provides tribute to those sometimes valiant, sometimes wicked, sometimes hilarious, and often audacious characters who played a role in shaping Wichita's past.
Author : Foster Todd Smith
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN :
Offering detailed descriptions of their battles, negotiations, trading practices, and survival strategies, Smith traces the Wichitas' struggles to adapt to rapidly changing circumstances and defend themselves from encroaching tribes and white settlers."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Jane Arcger
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,51 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0585319782
Step into a colorful pageantry of the powerful people who once ruled and still influence the great state of Texas. From the Caddo in the Piney Woods, the Lipan Apache in the Southwest, the Wichita at the Red River, and the Comanche across the Great Plains to the Alabama-Coushatta in the Big Thicket, five nations come alive through myth and history in Jane Archer's vividly written book about the first Texans.
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Publisher :
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Anthropology
ISBN :