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Book Societies of the Iowa  Kansa  and Ponca Indians

Download or read book Societies of the Iowa Kansa and Ponca Indians written by Alanson Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Societies of the Plains Indians

Download or read book Societies of the Plains Indians written by Clark Wissler and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1094 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Societies of the Crow  Hidatsa and Mandan Indians

Download or read book Societies of the Crow Hidatsa and Mandan Indians written by Alanson Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 1074 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Ponca Tribe

Download or read book The Ponca Tribe written by James Henri Howard and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Ponca Indian originally lived in the states of Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska. There is now a Ponca reservation in the state of Oklahoma, as well as a group of Ponca Indians living in Nebraska

Book The Ponca Tribe

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Henri Howard
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1995-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803272798
  • Pages : 244 pages

Download or read book The Ponca Tribe written by James Henri Howard and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culture of the Ponca Indians is less well known than their misfortunes. A model of research and clarity, The Ponca Tribe is still the most complete account of these Indians who inhabited the upper central plains. Peaceably inclined and never numerous, they built earth-lodge villages, cultivated gardens, and hunted buffalo. James H. Howard considers their historic situation in present-day South Dakota and Nebraska, their trade with Europeans and relations with the U.S. government and, finally, their loss of land along the Niobrara River and forced removal to Indian Territory. The tragic events surrounding the 1877 removal, culminating in the arrest and trial of Chief Standing Bear, are only part of the Ponca story. Howard, a respected ethnologist, traces the tribe’s origins and early history. Aided by Ponca informants, he presents their way of life in his descriptions of Ponca lodgings, arts and crafts (pottery was made from blue clay found on the Missouri River), clothing and ornaments, food, tools and weapons, dogs and horses, kinship system, governance, sexual practices, and religious ceremonies and dances. He tells what is known about a proud (and ultimately divided) tribe that was led down a “trail of tears.” The Ponca Tribe was originally published in 1965 as a bulletin of the Smithsonian Institution’s Bureau of American Ethnology. Introducing this edition is Donald N. Brown, a professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, and a Ponca authority.

Book The Mississippi Valley Historical Review

Download or read book The Mississippi Valley Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes articles and reviews covering all aspects of American history. Formerly the Mississippi Valley Historical Review,

Book Kiowa Military Societies

    Book Details:
  • Author : William C. Meadows
  • Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
  • Release : 2012-11-08
  • ISBN : 080618602X
  • Pages : 477 pages

Download or read book Kiowa Military Societies written by William C. Meadows and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Warrior culture has long been an important facet of Plains Indian life. For Kiowa Indians, military societies have special significance. They serve not only to honor veterans and celebrate and publicize martial achievements but also to foster strong role models for younger tribal members. To this day, these societies serve to maintain traditional Kiowa values, culture, and ethnic identity. Previous scholarship has offered only glimpses of Kiowa military societies. William C. Meadows now provides a detailed account of the ritual structures, ceremonial composition, and historical development of each society: Rabbits, Mountain Sheep, Horses Headdresses, Black Legs, Skunkberry /Unafraid of Death, Scout Dogs, Kiowa Bone Strikers, and Omaha, as well as past and present women’s groups. Two dozen illustrations depict personages and ceremonies, and an appendix provides membership rosters from the late 1800s. The most comprehensive description ever published on Kiowa military societies, this work is unmatched by previous studies in its level of detail and depth of scholarship. It demonstrates the evolution of these groups within the larger context of American Indian history and anthropology, while documenting and preserving tribal traditions.

Book Iowa Journal of History and Politics

Download or read book Iowa Journal of History and Politics written by Benjamin Franklin Shambaugh and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Life and Ceremonial Bundles of the Menomini Indians

Download or read book Social Life and Ceremonial Bundles of the Menomini Indians written by Alanson Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Iowa Journal of History and Politics

Download or read book The Iowa Journal of History and Politics written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Ponca Societies and Dances

Download or read book Ponca Societies and Dances written by Alanson Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harpoons and Darts in the Stef  nsson Collection

Download or read book Harpoons and Darts in the Stef nsson Collection written by Clark Wissler and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of Eskimo artifacts in the Stefansson collection.

Book Kiowa Belief and Ritual

    Book Details:
  • Author : Benjamin R. Kracht
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 2017-07
  • ISBN : 1496201469
  • Pages : 405 pages

Download or read book Kiowa Belief and Ritual written by Benjamin R. Kracht and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2017-07 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Directed by anthropologist Alexander Lesser in 1935, the Santa Fe Laboratory of Anthropology sponsored a field school in southwestern Oklahoma that focused on the neighboring Kiowas. During two months, graduate students compiled more than 1,300 pages of single-spaced field notes derived from cross-interviewing thirty-five Kiowas. These eyewitness and first-generation reflections on the horse and buffalo days are undoubtedly the best materials available for reconstructing pre-reservation Kiowa beliefs and rituals. The field school compiled massive data resulting in a number of publications on this formerly nomadic Plains tribe, though the planned collaborative ethnographies never materialized. The extensive Kiowa field notes, which contain invaluable information, remained largely unpublished until now. In Kiowa Belief and Ritual, Benjamin R. Kracht reconstructs Kiowa cosmology during the height of the horse and buffalo culture from field notes pertaining to cosmology, visions, shamans, sorcery, dream shields, tribal bundles, and the now-extinct Sun Dance ceremony. These topics are interpreted through the Kiowa concept of a power force permeating the universe. Additional data gleaned from the field notes of James Mooney and Alice Marriott enrich the narrative. Drawing on more than thirty years of field experiences, Kracht’s discussion of how Indigenous notions of “power” are manifested today significantly enhances the existing literature concerning Plains religions.