A Dancing People
Subtitle: Powwow Culture on the Southern Plains
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: September 7, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780700614943
Subjects: Indigenous peoples; Social & cultural anthropology; Native American; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Sociology; Western & Pacific Coast states; Customs & Traditions; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies
First sentence: On a Saturday evening in August 1996, at a dance arbor near Meeker, Oklahoma, the evening session of an annual community powwow was briefly delayed as a local Sac and Fox family brought its teenaged son into the arena dressed in danced clothes for the first time.