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Chronicles the rise of the Cherokee Nation and its rapid decline, focusing on the Ridge-Watie family and their experiences during the Cherokee removal.

Spanning four centuries, this history traces events that shaped the lives of the Powhatan Indians of Virginia, from their first encounter with Spanish missionaries in 1750, through to their present-day way of life and relationship with the state of Virginia and the Federal Government.

This biography situates Chief Moses of the Columbias in the opening of the Northwest and subsequent Indian-white relations, between 1850 and 1898. He held his tribe at peace and resisted the call to arms of his friend Chief Joseph of the Nez Perces.

Before European incursions began, the Western Abenaki Indians inhabited present-day Vermont and New Hampshire. This history of their relationship with whites in this region documents their survival as a people and their wars and migrations during the first two centuries of white contact.

Explores the society of the Crow Indians, who have survived more than a century of assimilation pressures. Frey attributes their resilience to their world-view: in the same way that pieces of driftwood lodge together, so clan members cling together in a turbulent world.

C. L. Sonnichsen tells the story of the Mescalero Apaches from the earliest records to the modern day, from the Indian's point of view. In early days the Mescaleros moved about freely. Their principal range was between the Río Grande and the Pecos in New Mexico, but they hunted into the Staked Plains and southward into Mexico. They owned nothing and everything.

This work demonstrates the central importance of visionary dreams as sources of empowerment and innovation in Plains Indian religion. It examines 350 dreams from 150 years of published and unpublished sources to describe the shared features of cosmology for 23 groups of Plains Indians.

This is an account of those Cherokees who separated themselves from other Western Cherokees in an effort to retain the tribe's traditional lifeways, and who settled in Texas. However, they found themselves caught between the Cherokee ideal of harmony and the reality of factionalism.

A sedentary fishing tribe in the plateau and mountain country of central Idaho, northeastern Oregon, and southeastern Washington, the Nez Perces were transformed by the acquisition of the horse into a tribe that hunted on the plains and assimilated much of the buffalo culture.

The Cheyenne Indians, in sharp contrast to other Plains tribes, are renowned for the clear sense of form and structure in their institutions. This cultural trait, together with the colorful background of the Cheyennes, attracted the unique collaboration of a legal theorist and an anthropologist, who, in this volume, provide a definitive picture of the law-ways of a primitive, nonliterate people.

A history of peyotism, an important Native American religious movement. Presenting ethnographic and ethnohistorical data, rather than a theoretical exegesis, the study of this pan-tribal movement should appeal to anthropologists and historians, as well as those interested in religious groups.

"An outstandingly clear picture of Spotted Tail . . . the definitive work."-Saturday ReviewSpotted Tail, the great head chief of the Brule Sioux, was an intelligent and farseeing man who realized alone of all the Sioux that the old way of life was doomed and that to war with the white soldiers was certain suicide. Although he was branded a traitor by many members of his tribe, the canny Brule, with all the skill of an accomplished diplomat, fought a delaying action over the council tables with the high officials in Washington. The only man in the tribe big enough to stand up to the whites and insist upon the rights of the Brulés under existing treaties with the U. S. government, he used every means available to him, short of a shooting war, to protect his people from being rushed into the white man's ways by government agents and eastern "Friends of the Indians."Thus the story of Spotted Tail is the story of the Brulé struggle against being made into imitation whites overnight, even when they were forced on the reservation, where they were expected to farm the land, raise cattle, send their children to school, and adopt Christianity-all at once.The assassination of Spotted Tail in 1881 by his political enemy, Crow Dog, ended the history of the Brulé Sioux as a tribe. With the great voice stilled, at Rosebud Agency only the voices of little men were heard, quarreling about little matters. With his death, the government effected its purpose: to break the tribal organization to bits and put the Brulés under the control of their white agent.George E. Hyde was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1882. As a boy he became interested in Indians and began writing about them in 1910. He has produced some of the most important books on the American Indian ever written, including Indians of the High Plains, Indians of the Woodlands, Red Cloud's Folk, Spotted Tail's Folk, and Life of George Bent, all published by the University of Oklahoma Press. Hyde died in Omaha, Nebraska, in 1968 at the age of 86.

Presents the medical practices of the American Indians and portrays the historical relationship between the native Americans and the newcomers from the Old World. The author touches on such topics as pharmacology, healing, folklore and botany.