Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-149) and index.
Contents
Cow is shot: Sacajawea -- Westward ho! Trails that led West -- Migration of tribes onto the Great Plains, 16-19th centuries -- Jamestown to fort Armies: Two centuries of conflict -- Missionaries among the Indian s-- growth of the United States, to 1853 -- Native americans as slaves -- Rocky Mountain fur trade, 1820s and 1830s -- Great Plains and its people: Introduction to the horse into North America -- Original mobile home: Tipi -- Role of medicine men and women -- War on the Southern Plains: Great Plains culture area -- Gold and other rushes -- Sand Creek massacre, November 29, 1864 -- Plains Indians and their dogs and horses.
Summary
A narrative of the plains Indian wars from an American perspective.