Record details

• ISBN: 0806117702
• ISBN: 9780806117706
• Physical Description: xx, 826 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
• Edition: [First edition].
• Publisher: Norman, OK : University of Oklahoma Press, [1961]
• Copyright: ©1961

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 789-799) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Before the Europeans -- People from the stars -- The little old men -- The fireplaces -- "Move to a new country" -- The sacred Hawk -- The commandments -- The tribal hunt -- Kinsmen and enemies -- The heavy eyebrows -- First meetings with Europeans -- Flood on the smoky waters -- Coureurs de Bois and Voyageurs -- I-Spa-Tho and Long Knives -- Horses -- Guns -- To control a continent -- The Little Ones had a traditional flood -- The Down-Below People meet the Cliff Dwellers -- Slaves and spirits -- Coureurs de Bois, vagabonds, and Sac and Foxes -- The company of the Indies -- Fort d'Orleans -- "Louisiana has never been in open war with Osages" -- Wah'Kon and George Washington -- The I-Spa-Tho take over -- His Catholic Majesty declares war on the Little Ones -- Fort Carondelet -- The Americans -- European economics -- Before the invasion -- Marriage of Bloody Hands and The Light -- Little Stars from the Sky Lodge -- Mauve shadows -- The new Long Knives explorers -- The Little Ones touch the feather -- Fort Osage and the War of 1812 -- Fort Smith -- Rhythms of the Moon Woman -- The grizzly bear lunge -- Hunter stalks the Little Ones -- The Little Ones protect their "brothers" -- Mo'n Sho'n becomes a shriveled old woman -- The god of the heavy eyebrows -- Little Chief and Hawk Woman go to France -- The "Buffalo" Indians and the immigrants -- The "Little People" attack the Little Ones -- The Little Ones ordered off their old domain -- On the prairie and the plains -- On the prairie -- On the plains -- Nika-Sabe, the black man -- Between the heavy eyebrows and the Arapahoes -- The friends -- Blackjacks and prairie -- Peyote and oil -- Disintegration and confusion -- Moonhead -- The mourning Dance -- The crow dancers -- The great frenzy -- The old eagle goes to Spiritland.

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