Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-305) and index.
Contents
Foreword / Robert E. Shimp -- Preface / Emma I. Hansen -- People of the Plains -- Land of many gifts -- Women's roles / Beatrice Medicine -- Buffalo and the people -- The buffalo as part of the Mandan-Hidatsa way of life / Gerard Baker -- Honor and celebration -- Crow tribal leaders / Joseph Medicine Crow -- Adversity and renewal -- A new and different life on a small part of a very old place : traditional arts in the early reservation period in the Dakotas, 1870-1920 / Arthur Amiotte -- Our people today : enduring legacies -- A Cheyenne in cyber space / Bently Spang -- The authors.