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Civilization of the American Indian volume 46
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"If that is Long Hair, I am the one who killed him," White Bull, the young nephew of Sitting Bull, said when Bad Juice pointed out Custer's body immediately after the Battle of the Little Big Horn. Yet it was Sitting Bull who acquired the notoriety and was paraded in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show as "the warrior who killed Custer." But this new edition of Stanley Vestal's classic biography of the famous chief emphasizes that "Sitting Bull's fame does...
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Western frontier library volume 31
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Before the white men came, there was a natural beauty in the land and the lives of the Plains Indians that will never be again. These people lived together, hunted the buffalo and the deer, fought their enemies, and developed a unique wisdom-- almost a philosophy-- for their own simple existence. As it was incorporated into the daily lives of these people, this tribal wisdom became tribal tradition. Indian children early learned the ways of their...
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Even experienced warriors would have hesitated to set off on a two-man war party, and for young Tom Fox and his Blackfoot almost-brother, Pitamakan, it would have been foolhardy. But Tom was in trouble. Against orders, he had taken his Uncle Wesley's finest buffalo horse on a hunting trip with his Blackfoot friends. Now the camp had been raided and the horse stolen. So Tom had to turn from the pleasures of the hunt to the terrible risks of a war party...
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Civilization of the American Indian volume 25
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Probably no native American handicrafts are more widely admired than Navajo weaving and Navajo and Pueblo silver work. This book contains the first full and authoritative account of the Indian silver jewelry fashioned in the Southwest by the Navajo and the Zuni, Hopi, and other Pueblo peoples. It is written by John Adair, a trained ethnologist who has become a recognized expert on this craft. The Navajo and Pueblo Silversmiths provides a full history...
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In this illuminating book, the Plains Indians come to life as shrewd traders. The Cheyennes played a vital role in an intricate and expanding barter system that connected tribes with each other and with whites. Joseph Jablow follows the Cheyennes, who by the beginning of the nineteenth century had migrated westward from their villages in present-day Minnesota into the heart of the Great Plains. Formerly horticulturists, they became nomadic hunters...
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Herbert Eugene Bolton, who was well-known for his books on the Southwest and Spanish Americas, here recounts in detail Francisco Vasquez de Coronado's sixteenth-century entrada to the North American frontier of the Spanish Empire.
In retracing Coronado's route, Professor Bolton-with access to new information-was able to relive the experiences of the original exploration. Originally published in 1949, he brings fresh insight and profound knowledge...
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J. W. Schultz (1859-1947) was an author, explorer, and historian known for his historical writings of the Blackfoot Indians in the late 1800s, when he lived among them as a fur trader. In 1907, Schultz published My Life as an Indian, the first of many future writings about the Blackfeet that he would produce over the next thirty years. Schultz lived in Browning, Montana.
"An Indian Winter, or With the Indians in the Rockies" is by a Rocky Mountain...
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How did the heroics of a frontier Kansas cattleman and post trader vault him into a commission with the famous Fifth Cavalry and a leading role in the Indian Wars of the 1870s?
In 1925, former cowboy, rancher, bullwhacker, Rocky Mountain miner, post-trader, Indian scout, and cavalry officer Col Homer W. Wheeler would write of his many hair-raising adventures on the Plains and Rocky Mountain frontier in his narrative titled, "Buffalo Days: Forty Years...
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This is Joseph Kinsey Howard's last major work. It describes for the first time in detail, the heroic struggle of a primitive people to establish their own empire in the heart of the North American continent.
Throughout his lifetime, Joseph Kinsey Howard was absorbed by the fateful dream of these American primitives, the Métis: their fathers, the English, the French, the Scots frontiersmen; their mothers the Native Americans.