Anybody have stories/info on Plains Indians?
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Anybody have stories/info on Plains Indians?
My wife volunteers and visits/reads to a guy who is dying of MS. He really likes the Plains Indians and anything you can add for her to read to him during the hour she visits each week would be awesome.
Kind regards,
Tycer
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Re: Anybody have stories/info on Plains Indians?
Tycer, I recommend TR Fehrenbach's "A History of Texas and the Texans" has a good deal of info about early Americans, including Plains Indians. I got this for Christmas, and have been enjoying it, along with some other books of a historical nature. Your wife sounds like a good woman.
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How about Comanches? Here is a private park on the Nueces R. with a cool history - follow the "more" links.
http://www.chalkbluffpark.com/history1.html
http://www.chalkbluffpark.com/history1.html
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Charlie Russell the artist wrote a lot of good stories. Some were tall tales, others pretty interesting historical stories. There were several of white guys that lived with Indians, and some of Indians. He went to Montana alone in 1880 at the ripe old age of 16, and lived an interesting life and knew a lot of interesting old characters.
Here are many of his stories,
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700941h.html
Dunc McDonald is good, as is Injuns, and How Lindsay Turned Indian. Some of Russells stories are sad, may be best if she reads them first to get a feel for each one before reading them to her friend. I like man y of his stories, those mentioned pertain to the Indians more than most.
Here are many of his stories,
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700941h.html
Dunc McDonald is good, as is Injuns, and How Lindsay Turned Indian. Some of Russells stories are sad, may be best if she reads them first to get a feel for each one before reading them to her friend. I like man y of his stories, those mentioned pertain to the Indians more than most.
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Re: Anybody have stories/info on Plains Indians?
There was a Time Life set of books that were put out years ago called "The Old West."
There are about 20 books in the set. We have a few we have purchased over the years, "The Gunfighters" and "The Great Chiefs." You should be able to find them at your local library.
There are about 20 books in the set. We have a few we have purchased over the years, "The Gunfighters" and "The Great Chiefs." You should be able to find them at your local library.
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Re: Anybody have stories/info on Plains Indians?
"Black Elk Speaks" Sioux in Neb/South Dakota/wyoming, talks of Crazy Horse.
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Take a book of Howard Terpning's art, which he 'narrates' with detailed descriptions, or a laptop with access to his portfolio.
Here's a good place to start - http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Pictu ... g_pg1.html.; you have to click on the thumbnails to see the bigger view.
More pictures (check the prices out) - http://www.artifactsgallery.com/art.asp ... ing&ID=637
The book(s) he publishes are better, as they have more text - http://www.artifactsgallery.com/art.asp?!=W&ID=13647
My favorite print - if I win the lottery I'll buy this one...
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Here's a good place to start - http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Pictu ... g_pg1.html.; you have to click on the thumbnails to see the bigger view.
More pictures (check the prices out) - http://www.artifactsgallery.com/art.asp ... ing&ID=637
The book(s) he publishes are better, as they have more text - http://www.artifactsgallery.com/art.asp?!=W&ID=13647
My favorite print - if I win the lottery I'll buy this one...
http://www.artifactsgallery.com/art.asp?!=W&ID=13647
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Re: Anybody have stories/info on Plains Indians?
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
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The Captured by Scott Zesch is a great read. It is true stories of white folks captured by the plains Indians on the Texas frontier in the late 1870s.
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Tough Trip Through Paradise, Montana 1878 by andrew garcia. he lived the life, married to Indian wife; fascinating and even hair-raising stories. the real thing.
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Black Elk Speaks is hard for non-natives to understand, it requires a backround to get the spiritual stuff.
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Empire of the Summer Moon - Quanah Parker and the Commanche
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Re: Anybody have stories/info on Plains Indians?
Anything by George Bird Grinnell
I have this one I bought at St. Labre.
http://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Cheyenne ... d+grinnell
At a slightly different angle, Black Robe by John Upton Terrell, about Father Jean-Pierre DeSmet who spent a lot of time with the plains Indians.
I have this one I bought at St. Labre.
http://www.amazon.com/Fighting-Cheyenne ... d+grinnell
At a slightly different angle, Black Robe by John Upton Terrell, about Father Jean-Pierre DeSmet who spent a lot of time with the plains Indians.
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There is a great deal of information here, written in the early 1900s by people wanting to document what remained of the native cultures.
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Above is a great book. I also liked "Blood and Thunder" by Hampton Sides.JohnB wrote:Empire of the Summer Moon - Quanah Parker and the Commanche
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Email me directly. I'm going to jump on a grenade here....I'm an upper great plains archaeologist.
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wow! american native archaeology was one of my passions in college! i studied with Geoffrey Coe, the NC state archaeologist and professor at Chapel hIll, and others . you are a very fortunate man!rat patrol wrote:Email me directly. I'm going to jump on a grenade here....I'm an upper great plains archaeologist.
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http://r.search.yahoo.com/r/_ylt=A0SO8z ... kansas.htm
Don't forget that there were plains indians in Kansas. The wagon trains crossing Kansas were not safe in the early years. Then, there is also Nebraska. http://www.native-languages.org/nebraska.htm
The horse who survived the battle of the greasy grass is enshrined in a glass case in the museum of natural history on campus at Kansas University. The person who designed the case made an error in measurement, and one vertebra had to be removed so that Comanche would fit in the glass case. I don't have much more right now.
Don't forget that there were plains indians in Kansas. The wagon trains crossing Kansas were not safe in the early years. Then, there is also Nebraska. http://www.native-languages.org/nebraska.htm
The horse who survived the battle of the greasy grass is enshrined in a glass case in the museum of natural history on campus at Kansas University. The person who designed the case made an error in measurement, and one vertebra had to be removed so that Comanche would fit in the glass case. I don't have much more right now.
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Re: Anybody have stories/info on Plains Indians?
I studied Native Americans in US History for a year in college to break up the monotony of microbiology and "o"Chem etc. Fascinating information.
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We lived near Rapid City, South Dakota 1993-2004. The modern Lakota Sioux struggle with alcoholism and drug addictions, too.
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http://www.cheyenneancestors.com/ncbiblio.html
Just google the words "bibliography" and whatever Indian tribe you want to know about. Usually you can find a list of good reads.
Just google the words "bibliography" and whatever Indian tribe you want to know about. Usually you can find a list of good reads.
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Re: Anybody have stories/info on Plains Indians?
A very good read.....JohnB wrote:Empire of the Summer Moon - Quanah Parker and the Commanche
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+1 for A Tough Trip Through Paradise
Also good are My Life As An Indian by James Schultz and The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman.
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Also good are My Life As An Indian by James Schultz and The Oregon Trail by Francis Parkman.
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rat patrol wrote:Email me directly. I'm going to jump on a grenade here....I'm an upper great plains archaeologist.
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To keep it simple, I'll post a photo of those selections I highly suggest.
What period/era are folks interested?
What period/era are folks interested?
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I'm native American & I have never understood it.Mescalero wrote:Black Elk Speaks is hard for non-natives to understand, it requires a backround to get the spiritual stuff.
Strange stuff, that.
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i am just part cherokee, and i have read it at least twice......i enjoy it but i am sure i dont get most of it. i am more lunk head than spiritual i suspect.2571 wrote:I'm native American & I have never understood it.Mescalero wrote:Black Elk Speaks is hard for non-natives to understand, it requires a backround to get the spiritual stuff.
Strange stuff, that.
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Good on yer wife, Tycer !
The onlyest thing I know about Indians is what I learned @ the Foxwoods & Mohegan Sun indian casinos - their employee health benefits are provided by the tribe's medicine man.
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Good on yer wife, Tycer !
The onlyest thing I know about Indians is what I learned @ the Foxwoods & Mohegan Sun indian casinos - their employee health benefits are provided by the tribe's medicine man.
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Re: Anybody have stories/info on Plains Indians?
Can't recommend this book enough! Great read!game keeper wrote:A very good read.....JohnB wrote:Empire of the Summer Moon - Quanah Parker and the Commanche
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Tycer,
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Re: Anybody have stories/info on Plains Indians?
Plains indian culture was not monolithic and varied quite a bit. Some were quite admirable and others were despicable. I would classify the Lakota as admirable and the Comanche as despicable.
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Another thumbs-up for this one.RKrodle wrote:Can't recommend this book enough! Great read!game keeper wrote:A very good read.....JohnB wrote:Empire of the Summer Moon - Quanah Parker and the Commanche