[PDF] Indians Of The Plains eBook

Author : Robert Harry Lowie
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 35,2 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803279070

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First published in 1954, Robert H. Lowie's Indians of the Plains surveys in a lucid and concise fashion the history and culture of the Indian tribes between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. The author visited various tribes from 1906 to 1931, observing them carefully, participating in their lifeways, studying their languages, and listening to their legends and tales. After a half century of study, Lowie wrote this book, praised by anthropologists as the synthesis of a lifetime's work. A preface by Raymond J. DeMallie situates the book in the history of American anthropology and describes information and changes in interpretation that have emerged since Indians of the Plains first appeared.

Author : Andrew Santella
Publisher : Heinemann-Raintree Library
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 41,51 MB
Release : 2011-07
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1432949616

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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 : Michael Bad Hand Terry
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,5 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Decorations of honor
ISBN : 9780764335365

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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 : David J. Wishart
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 23,22 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0803290934

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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 : Dorothy Hinshaw Patent
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 42,15 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0547125518

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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 : Maria Campbell
Publisher : Douglas and McIntyre (2013) Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,25 MB
Release : 1990-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771000079

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An intimate, illustrated look at the lives of the Plains Indians

Author : Clark Wissler
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 1915
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :

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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 : Ronald P. Koch
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 1990-08-01
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780806121376

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Assembles information on and photographs of the shirts, robes, moccasins, headdresses, and ceremonial clothing of various Plains Indian tribes, illuminating their history and culture

Author : James D. Keyser
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 40,23 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780295980942

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Archaeologist Keyser and Klassen share with readers the origins, diversity, and beauty of Plains rock art, with the hope of encouraging greater awareness and respect for this cultural tradition by society as a whole. Their guide covers the natural and archaeological history of the northwestern Plains; explains rock art forms, techniques, styles, terminology and dating; and suggests interpretations of images and compositions. The text is illustrated throughout with black-and-white photos, maps and drawings. The writing is serious, but accessible to the general reader. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Jason Hook
Publisher : Osprey Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,89 MB
Release : 2000-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781841761213

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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.