Author : John Canfield Ewers
Release : 1968
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 413/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Indian Life on the Upper Missouri by : John Canfield Ewers
Download or read book Indian Life on the Upper Missouri written by John Canfield Ewers. This book was released on 1968. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Plains Indian of the Upper Missouri in the nineteenth-century buffalo days remains the widely recognized symbol of primitive man par excellence–and the persistent image of the North American Indian at his most romantic. Fifteen cultural highlights, each a chapter made from research for a particular subject and enriched by contemporary illustrations, provide a sensitive interpretation of tribes such as the Blackfeet, the Crows, and the Mandans from the decades before Lewis and Clark up to the present. In an attempt to understand and record the old culture of the Indians, the author has developed, over the past 30 years, a special ethnohistorical approach. The results, as seen here, are enlightening both for other ethnohistorians and for historians of more or less conventional bent. This book is abundantly illustrated from historical sources.
