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Memory and vision : arts, cultures, and lives of Plains Indian peoples / Emma I. Hansen ; with contributions by Beatrice Medicine [and others].

Hansen, Emma I. (Author). Medicine, Beatrice. (Added Author). Buffalo Bill Historical Center. (Added Author).

Summary:

"The story of the Native peoples of the Great Plains - including the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Lakota, Shoshone, Blackfeet, Kiowa, Pawnee, Arikara, Gros Ventre, Assiniboine, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Crow tribes - is integral to the history and heritage of the American West. These buffalo hunting and horticultural people once dominated the vast open region of the Great Plains, west of the Mississippi River and east of the Rock Mountains, that stretches from present-day Canada to Texas." "The magnificent arts of Plains Indian people also had such spiritual underpinnings which, together with their historical and cultural contexts, can provide greater insight and appreciation of their tribal significances. Illustrated with more than 300 images of objects from the collections of the Plains Indian Museum and Whitney Gallery of Western Art of the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, archival photographs of contemporary Native life, Memory and Vision: Arts, Cultures, and Lives of Plains Indian People is a comprehensive examination of the environments and historic forces that forged these cultures, and a celebration of their ongoing presence in our national society."--Jacket.

Record details

ISBN: 9780295985794
ISBN: 0295985798
ISBN: 9780295985800
ISBN: 0295985801
Physical Description: 319 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
Publisher: Cody, Wyo. : Buffalo Bill Historical Center ; ©2007.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-305) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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.