History Of The American Indian, Map Of The Location Of The Tribes, Daily Life And Other Activities As The Buffalo Hunt, The Impact Of The White Man's Advent On The Indian. Adapted From The Pages Of American Heritage, The Magazine Of History.

Who were the Indians of the Old West? Everyone knows them - the hawk-faced men with braided hair and war feathers, their copper skin stretched over high cheekbones. The tribal names are familiar too: Comanche, Cheyenne, Sioux, Kiowa, and others - all resonant of fierce valour, calling up images of painted horsemen with lances and bows. To most whites they represented the model of all Western Indians: the men trained from birth to hunt and fight; the women raised to sustain the warriors, sharing in celebrations of victory or slashing their bodies in moments of grief. For some tribes these images were true, but only partly true. For the Western Indians as a whole, they were only the most visible and spectacular manifestations of a broader, more complex story.

Examines the lives and experiences of Show Indians from their own point of view.

In this ambitious book that ranges across the Great Basin, Blackhawk places Native peoples at the center of a dynamic story as he chronicles two centuries of Indian and imperial history that shaped the American West. This book is a passionate reminder of the high costs that the making of American history occasioned for many indigenous peoples.

Twenty-five bawdy tales whose protagonists are Indians. The story, Raven in the Eye of the Storm, is on a marriage in which the wife, according to the husband, has been made stupid by Christianity.

Presents a collection of essays that describe the settling of the American West and the conflicts between the encroaching whites and the native peoples.