The Plains Indians:

For the Plains Indians, the period from 1750 to 1890, often referred to as the traditional period, was an evolutionary time. Horses and firearms, trade goods, shifting migration patterns, disease pandemics, and other events associated with extensive European contact led to a peak of Plains Indian in...

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1. Verfasser: Carlson, Paul H. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: College Station Texas A & M. Univ. Press 1998
Ausgabe:1. ed.
Schriftenreihe:Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation: The Elma Dill Russell Spencer Foundation series 19
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Zusammenfassung:For the Plains Indians, the period from 1750 to 1890, often referred to as the traditional period, was an evolutionary time. Horses and firearms, trade goods, shifting migration patterns, disease pandemics, and other events associated with extensive European contact led to a peak of Plains Indian influence and success in the early nineteenth century. Ironically, that same European contact ultimately led to the devolution of traditional Plains Indian society, and by 1870 most Plains Indian peoples were living on reservations.
Beschreibung:XII, 254 S. Ill.
ISBN:0890968284
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