Great Plains Indians / David J. Wishart.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wishart, David J., 1946- author.

Series:

Discover the Great Plains

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Great Plains--History.

Indians of North America.

Great Plains--History.

Great Plains.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln, Nebraska ; London, England : University of Nebraska Press, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 thirteenthousand years ago to the present.

Contents:

Introduction: Plains Indians in the 2010 census

Since time immemorial

Land and life around 1803

A century of dispossession

Against all odds.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780803290938

0803290934

9780803290952

0803290950

OCLC:

954046950