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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carlson, Paul Howard
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©1998.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 19.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • People and the plains
  • First arrivals
  • Horse and bison culture
  • Economy and material culture
  • Social organizations
  • Society and social conventions
  • Ceremony and belief systems
  • Trade and diplomacy
  • War and peace
  • Reservation life
  • Twentieth century.