Great Plains Indians
By: David J. Wishart
Series: Discover the Great Plains; Discover the Great Plains
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9780803269620
Subjects: Indians of North America; History
Description: "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. "--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 125-127) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Plains Indians in the 2010 census; title: Since time immemorial; title: Land and life around 1803; title: A century of dispossession; title: Against all odds.