The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Great Plains

by Loretta Fowler

Book Overview

Plains Indians have long occupied a special place in the American imagination. Both the historical reality of such evocative figures and events as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Sacajewea, and the Battle of Little Bighorn and the lived reality of Native Americans today are often confused and conflated with popular representations of Indians in movies, paintings, novels, and on television. Ingrained stereotypes and cultural misconceptions born of late...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231117019
• ISBN13: 9780231117012
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.1"