Handbook of North American Indians Plains (Handbook of North American Indians Series, Volume 13)
Edited by DeMallie, director of the American Indian Studies  Research Institute at Indiana University, this latest addition  to the distinguished "Handbook of North American Indians" series  documents approximately 10,000 years of Native American  habitation in a geographically defined region that extends from  the Upper Mississippi River valley to the Rocky Mountains and  from the Saskatchewan River valley in present-day Canada to the  Rio Grande. It is a region largely comprising grasslands that  served into the late 19th century as the grazing area for the  large herds of buffalo that provided basic sustenance for Native  American groups such as the Blackfoot, Sioux, Cheyenne, and  Comanche. Divided into 67 chapters over two volumes, this work  features the most current research available from some of the  foremost experts in their respective fields. Thirty-five of the  chapters focus on specific native groups, while the remaining 32  explore such varied topics as "Hunting and Gathering  Traditions," "The Languages of the Plains," and "Intertribal  Religious Movements." More than 30 years in the making, this  scholarly work is simply the most authoritative and  comprehensive title available on the topic and should be  acquired by all public and academic libraries. Academic  libraries should also strongly consider purchasing DeMallie's  equally outstanding Documents of American Indian Diplomacy:  Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions, 1775-1979 (Univ. of  Oklahoma, 1999), which he coedited with Vine Deloria Jr. John  Burch, Campbellsville Univ., KYCopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.