Native Americans of the Great Plains

Resources at the SJRCC Libraries

PAL = Palatka Campus | OPC = Orange Park Campus | SAC = St. Augustine Campus

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Blackfoot Lodge Tales: The Story of a Prairie People by George Bird Grinnell

Call number: PAL - 398.2 G868

Bloodland: A True Story of Oil, Greed and Murder on the Osage Reservation - Publisher's Marketing: "In the 1920s, oil production on the Osage reservation transformed the tribe into the wealthiest population in the world. Strangers descended upon the region, courting and wedding young Osage women. Many of these new brides died mysteriously. In this searing memoir, journalist Dennis McAuliffe researches the death of his grandmother and realizes that his own grandfather may have engineered her death."

Call number: OPC - E99.O8 B656 1999

Call number: PAL - E99.O8 B656 1999

The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Ways of Life - Publisher's Marketing: ""The Cheyenne Indians: Their History and Their Ways of Life" is a classic ethnography, originally published in 1928, that grew out of George Bird Grinnell's long acquaintance with the Cheyennes. Volume I looks at the tribe's early history and migrations, customs, domestic life, social organization, hunting, amusements, and government. In a second volume, Grinnell would consider its warmaking and warrior societies, healing practices and responses to European diseases, religious beliefs and rituals, and legends and prophecies surrounding the culture hero Sweet Medicine."

Call number: PAL - E99.C53 G77 1972 2 vol.

Cheyenne Memories by John Stands In Timber and Margot Liberty
Call number: PAL - E99.C53 S7 1967

The Cheyennes : Indians of the Great Plains by E. Adamson Hoebel
Call number: PAL - E99.C53 H6 1960

Comanche Land by J. Emmor Harston
Call number: PAL - E99.C85 H3 1963

The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains by Ernest Wallace & E. Adamson Hoebel
Call number: PAL - E99.C85 W3 1952

Crazy Horse - Publisher's Marketing: "Legends cloud the life of Crazy Horse, a seminal figure in American history but an enigma even to his own people in his own day. This biography looks back across more than one hundred and twenty years at the life and death of this great Sioux warrior who became a reluctant leader at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. With his uncanny gift for understanding the human psyche, Larry McMurtry animates the character of this remarkable figure, whose betrayal by white representatives of the U.S. government was a tragic turning point in the history of the West. A mythic figure puzzled over by generations of historians, Crazy Horse emerges from McMurtry's sensitive portrait as the poignant hero of a long-since-vanished epoch."

Call number: OPC - E99.O3 C7426 1999

Call number: PAL - E99.O3 C7426 1999

Call number: SAC - E99.O3 C7426 1999

Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas: A Biography by Mari Sandoz
Call number: PAL - E90.C94 S3 1961

Crazy Horse, His Life, His Lands: A Photographic Biography by Bill and Jan Moeller
Call number: PAL - E90.C94 S3 1961 E99.O3 C725 1987 OVRSZ

The Crow Indians by Robert H. Lowie
Call number: PAL - E90.C94 S3 1961E99.C92 L913 1935

Crowfoot, Chief of the Blackfeet by Hugh A. Dempsey
Call number: PAL - E99.S54 C73 1972

The Effects of White Contact upon Blackfoot Culture, with Special Reference to the Rôle of the Fur Trade by Oscar Lewis
Call number: PAL - E99.S54 L4 1966

The Fighting Cheyennes by George Bird Grinnell
Call number: PAL - E99.C53 G8 1956

Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri; Sioux, Arickaras, Assiniboines, Crees, Crows by Edwin Thompson Denig
Call number: PAL - E78.M82 D4 1961

Hidatsa Social and Ceremonial Organization by Alfred W. Bowers
Call number: PAL - E99.H6 B67 1965

Indian Fights and Fighters - Publisher's Marketing: "Originally published in 1904, "Indian Fights and Fighters" regularly appears in bibliographies of significant works on the history of the American West. Embracing almost three decades of Plains history, it contains not only Brady's clear, fast-paced accounts of the Plains wars, but also a number of eyewitness accounts, most of which were written especially for him and which are almost impossible to find elsewhere. The Powder River Expedition, the tragedy at Fort Phil Kearny, the Wagon Box Fight, the defense of Beecher's Island, the Fetterman Massacre, the battles of Washita and Summit Springs, and the campaigns of Crook, Custer, and Miles against the Sioux all are fully treated. The introduction by James T. King sketches Brady's career and evaluates his sources."

Call number: PAL - E83.866 .B82 1971

Little Bighorn Remembered: The Untold Indian Story of Custer's Last Stand - Publisher's Marketing: "On the morning of June 25, 1876, soldiers of the elite U.S. Seventh Cavalry led by Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer attacked a large Indian encampment on the banks of the Little Bighorn River. By day's end, Custer and more than two hundred of his men lay dead. It was a shocking defeat--or magnificent victory, depending on your point of view--and more than a century later it is still the object of controversy, debate, and fascination.
What really happened on that fateful day? Now, thanks to the work of Herman J. Viola, Curator Emeritus of the Smithsonian Institution, we are much closer to answering that question. Dr. Viola, a leader in the preservation of Native American culture and history, has collected here dozens of dramatic, never-before-published accounts by Indians who participated in the battle--accounts that have been handed down to the present day, often secretly and accompanied by oaths of silence, from one generation to the next. These remarkable eyewitness recollections provide a direct link to that day's events; together they constitute an unprecedented oral history of the battle from the Native American point of view and the most comprehensive eyewitness description of Little Bighorn we have ever had.

Here are the dramatic stories of the Cheyenne and Lakota warriors who rode into battle against Custer, the yellow-haired Son of the Morning Star, an adversary whose valor they admired--but who became a mortal enemy after breaking his peace-pipe oath, a scene described vividly in these pages. Here in their own words are the stories of the Crow scouts, allies of Custer, who advised against attacking Sitting Bull's village on the Little Bighorn. Hereare tales of valor told by the Arikara scouts who fought side by side with Custer's men against the Lakota and Cheyenne; although the Great Father in Washington rewarded their heroism with silence, it is celebrated to this day in tribal stories and songs that come to us from beyond the grave with hair-raising immediacy and power.
Lavishly illustrated with more than two hundred maps, photographs, reproductions, and drawings, this remarkable book also includes:

An account of the battle, including startling descriptions of Custer's conduct, collected from the Crow scouts by the famed photographer Edward S. Curtis in 1908. Curtis never published this report--President Theodore Roosevelt advised him not to--and it remained a secret until his ninety-year-old son recently gave the material to the Smithsonian.
New archaeological evidence from the battlefield that casts fresh light on the Seventh Cavalry's movements, along with discoveries from the site of Sitting Bull's village--including the complete skeleton of a cavalry horse with its rider's well- preserved saddlebags and personal items.
A series of illustrations made soon after the battle by Red Horse, a remarkable tableau that is reproduced here in its entirety for the first time.
Three letters written by Lieutenant William Van Wyck Reily just days before he died at Little Bighorn that provide key and potentially controversial insights into the conduct of the cavalry under Custer's command.

In short, this landmark book takes us much closer to knowing what really happened on that June day in 1876 when Custer died and a legend was born."

Call number: PAL - E83.876 .V563 1999

Call number: SAC - E83.876 .V563 1999

The Ponca Chiefs: An Account of the Trial of Standing Bear by Thomas Henry Tibbles
Call number: PAL - 342.73 T552

The Ponca Tribe by James Henri Howard
Call number: PAL - E51.U6 no.195 1965

The Southern Cheyennes by Donald J. Berthrong
Call number: PAL - E99.C53 B46 1963

Two Leggings: The Making of a Crow Warrior edited by Peter Nabokov
Call number: PAL - E90.T9 A3 1967

Dramatic Narratives Compose a Compelling Reference

By weaving passages from original documents into dramatic narratives, each title in the series creates a remarkably vivid portrait of specific aspects of American Indian heritage and history. The series provides the kind of valuable information too frequently left out of textbooks and general histories. Each practical reference is enhanced by carefully chosen historical drawings, photographs, and maps; an up-to-date bibliography and further reading list; and a complete index.

A Wealth of Learning Aids and Features Enriches the Study of Native American History
-- Lively narrative and lucid visuals explore Native Americans' roles in the country's development and history.
-- Special boxed features highlight crucial topics and the roles of significant individuals.
-- Coverage of twentieth-century issues and events reveals that Native American culture is as much a part of America's present as the past.
-- A must for the study of American history: the in-depth coverage fosters an appreciation for cultural diversity.

Weaving together primary sources and firsthand accounts from soldiers, pioneers, reporters, missionaries, reservation agents, U.S. presidents, and the Lakota themselves, Wounded Knee 1890 explores the often-avoided history of this American disaster."

Call number: SAC - E83.89 .S77 1998

Authentic Native American Music

Call number: SAC - A/V Music Native Am CD

Songs of Earth, Water, Fire, and Sky: Music of the American Indian

Call number: PAL - A/V M1669 .S66 1991 CD

From the Heart of the Crow Country

Call number: PAL - A/V E99.C92 M43 1992 AUDBK