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Though confined to the great Dakota reservation in 1878, the Sioux did not end their struggle with the white intruders until well into the 20th century. This book tells the stories of Chief Spotted Tail, Red Cloud, the ghost dance, the Messiah craze and the disaster at Wounded Knee, amongst others.

Offers a complex and nuanced picture of the Ioways' efforts to retain their tribal identity within the constrictive boundaries of the Great Nemaha Agency. Drawing on diaries, newspapers, and correspondence from the agency's files and Presbyterian archives, Olson offers a compelling case study in US colonialism and Indigenous resistance.

A study of the dress of the Plains Indians which counters the misconception that all the tribes of the central region dressed alike. Certain similarities could be found amongst the groups, but each tribe had its own distinctive traditions and preferences.

This is the history of a remarkable nation, the only Indian tribe that never officially made peace with the United States. General Thomas Sidney Jesup admired the Seminoles as adversaries: "We have, at no former period in our history, had to contend with so formidable an enemy. No Seminole proves false to his country, nor has a single instance occurred of a first rate warrior having surrendered." Jesup made those comments in 1837, and they proved true throughout the Seminole-white confrontations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Portions of the Seminoles' story--particularly their wars--have been told, but until this book no extensive history of the tribe had been written. Here is the record of those dauntless people who were tricked, robbed, defrauded, and abused. The origins of the tribe, the complex problems concerning their rights in Florida, the military operations against them, their forced removal to Indian Territory, their role in the Civil War, and their adjustment to life in the West are important elements of the book.

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.

The 200 letters in this volume chronicle more than 40 years of history in the old Cherokee Nation - from removal through the Civil War to Reconstruction - as recorded in the correspondence of the Ridge-Watie-Boudinot families, the minority leaders in the Nation, and known as the "Treaty Party".

The Blackfeet were the strongest military power on the northwestern plains throughout the eighteenth century. But the near extinction of buffalo in the late nineteenth century brought dire poverty to the tribe, forcing them to rely in part on the U.S. government for sustenance. In this history of the Blackfeet, historian John C. Ewers relied on his own experience living among the Blackfeet as well as archival research to tell of not only the events that have so drastically affected the Blackfeet way of life, but also the ways the Blackfeet have responded, adapting and preserving their culture in the face of a changing landscape.

This is an account of the history and activities of the Apache Indians, as well as the tortuous course of events that led to the tribe's subjugation. The author examines a racial and cultural struggle in which the duplicity of white government officials proved to be a decisive factor.

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

A guide to all the known hieroglyphic symbols of the Classic Maya script. In the New Catalog Martha Macri and Matthew Looper have produced a valuable research tool based on the latest Mesoamerican scholarship.

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.

Recounts the reservation period of the Cheyennes and the Arapahoes in western Oklahoma. This is an investigation - and an indictment - of the assimilation and reservation policies thrust upon them in the latter half of the nineteenth century, policies that succeeded only in doing enormous damage to sturdy, vital people.

An examination of the craft of silversmithing among the Navaho and Pueblo Indians, based on museum inspections, field work, interviews and a brief apprenticeship to a Navaho silversmith. Adair aims to relate the art to its social framework as well as provide an analysis of the economic aspects.

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.