The Plains Indians /
For the Plains Indians, the period from 1750 to 1890, often referred to as the traditional period, was an evolutionary time. Horses and firearms, trade goods, shifting migration patterns, disease pandemics, and other events associated with extensive European contact led to a peak of Plains Indian in...
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| Format: | Government Document Book |
| Language: | English |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
©1998.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ;
no. 19. |
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| Summary: | For the Plains Indians, the period from 1750 to 1890, often referred to as the traditional period, was an evolutionary time. Horses and firearms, trade goods, shifting migration patterns, disease pandemics, and other events associated with extensive European contact led to a peak of Plains Indian influence and success in the early nineteenth century. Ironically, that same European contact ultimately led to the devolution of traditional Plains Indian society, and by 1870 most Plains Indian peoples were living on reservations. History professor Paul Carlson charts the evolution and growth of the Plains Indians through this period, arguing that they were neither passive recipients of cultural changes nor helpless victims. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 254 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-236) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0890968284 9780890968284 0890968179 9780890968178 |