Memory and vision : arts, cultures, and lives of Plains Indian peoples /

"The story of the Native peoples of the Great Plains - including the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Lakota, Shoshone, Blackfeet, Kiowa, Pawnee, Arikara, Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Crow tribes - is integral to the history and heritage of the American West. These buffalo hunting and horti...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hansen, Emma I.
Corporate Author: Buffalo Bill Historical Center
Other Authors: Medicine, Beatrice
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cody, Wyo. : Seattle : Buffalo Bill Historical Center ; in association with University of Washington Press, ©2007.
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Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Robert E. Shimp
  • Preface / Emma I. Hansen
  • People of the Plains
  • Land of many gifts
  • Women's roles / Beatrice Medicine
  • Buffalo and the people
  • The buffalo as part of the Mandan-Hidatsa way of life / Gerard Baker
  • Honor and celebration
  • Crow tribal leaders / Joseph Medicine Crow
  • Adversity and renewal
  • A new and different life on a small part of a very old place : traditional arts in the early reservation period in the Dakotas, 1870-1920 / Arthur Amiotte
  • Our people today : enduring legacies
  • A Cheyenne in cyber space / Bently Spang
  • The authors.