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An outstandingly clear picture of Spotted Tail . . . the definitive work."-Saturday ReviewSpotted Tail, the great head chief of the Brule Sioux, was an intelligent and farseeing man who realized alone of all the Sioux that the old way of life was doomed and that to war with the white soldiers was certain suicide. Although he was branded a traitor by many members of his tribe, the canny Brule, with all the skill of an accomplished diplomat, fou...

I Pawnee, originari dei territori dell'attuale Oklahoma e stanziatisi fin dal XVII secolo nella regione dell'odierno Nebraska, appartengono al ceppo culturale e linguistico caddo, una famiglia di indiani che conduceva un'esistenza parzialmente sedentaria nelle grandi pianure a ovest del fiume Missouri. I tentativi pawnee di resistere alle invasioni del proprio territorio da parte dei bianchi ebbero scarso successo e non sfociarono mai in un ap...

Throughout the last decades of the nineteenth century the Sioux waged a cold war with the United States Department of the Interior, the Indian Bureau, Indian agents sent to supervise Sioux Reservation life, and the so-called Indian Friends of the East, who sought to "school and church" the Sioux into submission.

The westward drive of the warlike Sioux Indians along a thousand miles of prairie and woodland, from the upper reaches of the Mississippi to the lower Powder River in Montana, is one of the epic migrations of history. From about 1660 to the first quarter of the nineteenth century, the Teton Sioux swept away all opposition: Arikaras, Ponkas, Crees, Crows, Cheyennes--all fell away and dispersed as the Sioux advanced, until the invaders ranged ov...

Volume 128 in the The Civilization of the American Indian Series "After 30 years of assessing firsthand accounts (both Indian and white), Pawnee oral history, anthropological and archeological evidence, Hyde completed probably his best synthesis among the many works he produced. Although other fragmentary works have been published on the Pawnees, none has yet touched Hyde's work for comprehensiveness or insight. And as stated in the foreword, ...

George Bent, the son of William Bent, one of the founders of Bent's Fort on the Arkansas near present La Junta, Colorado, and Owl Woman, a Cheyenne, began exchanging letters in 1905 with George E. Hyde of Omaha concerning life at the fort, his experiences with his Cheyenne kinsmen, and the events which finally led to the military suppression of the Indians on the southern Great Plains. This correspondence, which continued to the eve of Bent's ...