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| Author | : David J. Wishart |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 962 |
| Release | : 2004-01-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780803247871 |
"Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a region that has traditionally been poorly defined,' and they have
| Author | : David J. Wishart |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 263 |
| Release | : 2007-03-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0803298625 |
Until the last two centuries, the human landscapes of the Great Plains were shaped solely by Native Americans, and since then the region has continued to be defined by the enduring presence of its Indigenous peoples. The Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians offers a sweeping overview, across time and space, of this story in 123 entries drawn from the acclaimed Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, together with 23 new entries focusing on contemporary Plains Indians, and many new photographs. ø Here are the peoples, places, processes, and events that have shaped lives of the Indians of the Great Plains from the beginnings of human habitation to the present?not only yesterday?s wars, treaties, and traditions but also today?s tribal colleges, casinos, and legal battles. In addition to entries on familiar names from the past like Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse, new entries on contemporary figures such as American Indian Movement spiritual leader Leonard Crow Dog and activists Russell Means and Leonard Peltier are included in the volume. Influential writer Vine Deloria Sr., Crow medicine woman Pretty Shield, Nakota blues-rock band Indigenous, and the Nebraska Indians baseball team are also among the entries in this comprehensive account. Anyone wanting to know about Plains Indians, past and present, will find this an authoritative and fascinating source.
| Author | : David J. Wishart |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 136 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0803290934 |
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 thirteen thousand years ago to the present.
| Author | : Andrew R. Graybill |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 294 |
| Release | : 2007-11-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0803260024 |
In the late nineteenth century, the Texas Rangers and Canada?s North-West Mounted Police were formed to bring the resource-rich hinterlands at either end of the Great Plains under governmental control. Native and rural peoples often found themselves squarely in the path of this westward expansion and the law enforcement agents that led the way. Though separated by nearly two thousand miles, the Rangers and Mounties performed nearly identical functions, including subjugating Indigenous groups; dispossessing peoples of mixed ancestry; defending the property of big cattlemen; and policing industrial disputes. Yet the means by which the two forces achieved these ends sharply diverged;øwhile the Rangers often relied on violence, the Mounties usually exercised restraint, a fact that highlights some of the fundamental differences between the U.S. and Canadian Wests. Policing the Great Plains presents the first comparative history of the two most famous constabularies in the world.
| Author | : Edwin Thompson Denig |
| Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
| Total Pages | : 270 |
| Release | : 1961 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 9780806113081 |
Describes the customs and manners of five Missouri Indian tribes by the author who was a fur trader in Missouri for more than twenty years.
| Author | : Brian Frehner |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 2021-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1496227077 |
The Greater Plains tells a new story of a region, stretching from the state of Texas to the province of Alberta, where the environments are as varied as the myriad ways people have inhabited them. These innovative essays document a complicated history of human interactions with a sometimes plentiful and sometimes foreboding landscape, from the Native Americans who first shaped the prairies with fire to twentieth-century oil regimes whose pipelines linked the region to the world. The Greater Plains moves beyond the narrative of ecological desperation that too often defines the region in scholarly works and in popular imagination. Using the lenses of grasses, animals, water, and energy, the contributors reveal tales of human adaptation through technologies ranging from the travois to bookkeeping systems and hybrid wheat. Transnational in its focus and interdisciplinary in its scholarship, The Greater Plains brings together leading historians, geographers, anthropologists, and archaeologists to chronicle a past rich with paradoxical successes and failures, conflicts and cooperation, but also continual adaptation to the challenging and ever-shifting environmental conditions of the North American heartland.
| Author | : Cynthia O'Brien |
| Publisher | : National Geographic Kids |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1426334532 |
"Complete with compelling stories told by tribal members and customs passed down through the ages, historical milestones, and profiles of prominent, modern-day leaders, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AMERICAN INDIAN HISTORY AND CULTURE is a richly illustrated and authoritative family reference." -- page 4 of cover.
| Author | : Steven L. Danver |
| Publisher | : CQ Press |
| Total Pages | : 825 |
| Release | : 2013-04-25 |
| Genre | : Reference |
| ISBN | : 1452276064 |
The Encyclopedia of Politics in the American West is an A to Z reference work on the political development of one of America’s most politically distinct, not to mention its fastest growing, region. This work will cover not only the significant events and actors of Western politics, but also deal with key institutional, historical, environmental, and sociopolitical themes and concepts that are important to more fully understanding the politics of the West over the last century.
| Author | : Sharon Malinowski |
| Publisher | : UXL |
| Total Pages | : 454 |
| Release | : 1999 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780787628390 |
Almost 400 North American tribes are covered with essays that contain information on both the historical and contemporary issues for each tribe.
