... can be identified as Crow drawings, begging the question of why they are located here, so far from Crow country and in the heart of Historic Blackfeet tribal territory. Detailed ethnohistoric research shows that one aspect of Historic Plains Indian warfare was the leaving of such drawings as “calling...

... in the fifty years following the ‘‘Great Drought’’ of1275. For LeBlanc, these migrations, congregations, and reorganizations can most plausibly be ex- plained by ‘‘the outbreak of intense warfare’’ (282). Antagonistic cluster...

... as the Segesser Hide Paintings, these two surviving documents offer incom- parable insight into the nature of eighteenth-century Plains Indian warfare and into the violent processes of social change remaking New Mexico’s northern borderlands.48 While Segesser II, the well-known portrait of Villasur’s...

... experiences into historical understandings of Indigenous warfare and diplomacy. In so doing, we are adding to the Métis historiography and Métis studies of the northern plains by including the voices of women whose experiences were predominantly housed in American archives. In the larger project...

...David J. Silverman Book Reviews 189 Gifts from the Thunder Beings: Indigenous Archery and European Firearms in the Northern Plains and the Central Subarctic, 1670–1870. By Roland Bohr. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2014. xv + 468 pp...

... themselves. Amerindians suffered dramatic population losses after 1492. This phe- nomenon is generally attributed to an unprecedented mortality caused by Old World–imported epidemic diseases, increasing warfare, and other pro- cesses ultimately ascribed to Euro-­American expansionism.1 At the same...

.... Shifting allegiances and territorial disputes were a facet of post-contact Plains Indian life, as was the routinized pattern of raiding-based warfare that pre- and postdates the South Platte posts As such, the peace witnessed by the dragoons was neither permanent nor equivocal, and the wars over...

..., interethnic warfare, and cultural disintegration. As he eloquently observes, “For Native people in real historical time . . . this was the challenge before them: to avoid what they perceived as the very real possibility that their communities, their people, their nations would be totally annihilated” (7...

... that encouraged horse theft, including terrain and the presence of major wagon roads. Though the author’s reading of Plains equestrian cultures is rather conventional, he makes the familiar interesting by delving into Indigenous accounts of horse-based reciprocity. Horse raids, horse gifts, and ceremonial...

..., New Zealand : Williams . Tillman Ralph H. Tillman Mary 1998 The Glorious Quest of Chief Washakie . Palmer Lake, CO : Filter . Vansina Jan 1985 Oral Tradition as History . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press . Vayda A. P. 1960 Maori Warfare...

... See John C. Ewers, “Intertribal Warfare as the Precursor of Indian-White War- fare on the Northern Great Plains,” Western Historical Quarterly 4 (1975): 397–410. 28 White, “Winning of the West,” 325. 29 Frequently referred to as one tribe in the seventeenth...

... coincided with increased warfare, disease, and dispossession. From this point forward in her book Lewis becomes unconcerned with Christianity’s declension. Her discovery of a cache of letters written by Nez Perce and Dakota pastors from the reservation period suggests the labors of Marcus Whitman...

... coincided with increased warfare, disease, and dispossession. From this point forward in her book Lewis becomes unconcerned with Christianity’s declension. Her discovery of a cache of letters written by Nez Perce and Dakota pastors from the reservation period suggests the labors of Marcus Whitman...

... endeavors as a failure in terms of the number of converts; their arrival coincided with increased warfare, disease, and dispossession. From this point forward in her book Lewis becomes unconcerned with Christianity’s declension. Her discovery of a cache of letters written by Nez Perce and Dakota...

... Bonnie Sue Lewis also views the ABCFM’s earliest missionary endeavors as a failure in terms of the number of converts; their arrival coincided with increased warfare, disease, and dispossession. From this point forward in her book Lewis becomes unconcerned with Christianity’s declension. Her...

... coincided with increased warfare, disease, and dispossession. From this point forward in her book Lewis becomes unconcerned with Christianity’s declension. Her discovery of a cache of letters written by Nez Perce and Dakota pastors from the reservation period suggests the labors of Marcus Whitman...

... Bonnie Sue Lewis also views the ABCFM’s earliest missionary endeavors as a failure in terms of the number of converts; their arrival coincided with increased warfare, disease, and dispossession. From this point forward in her book Lewis becomes unconcerned with Christianity’s declension. Her...

... 247 of ‘‘spiritual power Bonnie Sue Lewis also views the ABCFM’s earliest missionary endeavors as a failure in terms of the number of converts; their arrival coincided with increased warfare, disease, and dispossession. From this point forward in her book Lewis becomes unconcerned...

...- cially James H. Bradley (a pioneer historian of Montana) John C. Ewers, and Hugh A. Dempsey. Ewers likens the “primitive” Blackfoot methods of Indian warfare to the war philosophy of General Philip Sheridan, the Civil War hero who masterminded the massacre of Pikuni from his Chicago headquarters...

... in interregional and interethnic trade and warfare, and the Siberian Tatars, whose political influence was 6762 ETHNOHISTORY / 49:4 / sheet 155 of 193 so strong that until recently the Khanty referred to the Russian czar and the Soviet power as ‘‘khan Because...