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The warriors of the Plains
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Preface
The land and the people
The coming of the horse
War ceremonial
Weapons and warpaint
Exploits of the war chiefs
The only good Indian
The dispossessed
The battlefields today.
Illustrations: [ Buffalo study ] / Rudolph Kurz, about 1852
Mandan pole shrines / Karl Bodmer
Head scalp, complete with ears and cheeks, Sioux, 1836
Interior of an Indian lodge, probably Assiniboin / Edwin Denig, Fort Union, about 1852
Graphical view of the structure of the Sioux Nation, circa 1850
A buffalo pound / Paul Kane
[ Hunting buffalo on horseback ] / Rosa Bonheur
Crow Indian, Fort Union, September, 1851 / Rudolph Kurz
Crow and Nez Perce Indians, Little Big Horn, 1883
Case and contents of Two Leggings' war medicine bundle, Crow
The Big Soldier, Sioux, 1832 / Kard Bodmer
An Indian war party / N.C. Wyeth
The Wet / De Cort [ De Cost ] Smith
Return of the warriors / Charles M. Russell, 1906
Return of a successful Assiniboin war party [ with black faces ] / Rudolph Kurz
Sioux scalp taken by an Omaha, 1840 / Paul Dyck Foundation
Sun Dance ceremony / Jaw, about 1910
Rawhide cut-outs attached to Sun Dance Pole, Sioux, 1881 / collected by Alice Fletcher
Complex system of feather heraldry / drawn by Edward H. Blackmore
The silk robe / Charles M. Russell
Sioux exploit robe, 1830
Red Feather, Chief of the Sans Arcs, c. 1870
Fort Pierre, Dakota Territory, c. 1855 / F. Behran
Fort Berthold, 1868 / Régis de Trobriand
Rushing Bear, head chief of the Rees (Arikara), c. 1865
Chak-uk-t-kee, a Pawnee chief
Indians attacking emigrants. The marauders / Felix Octavius Carr Darley
Cheyenne and Arapaho chiefs, [including] Black Kettle, with John Smith, interpreter
The Sand Creek Massacre, November, 1864 / Robert Lindneux, 1936
Sergeant Frederick Wylyams, Fort Wallace, Kansa, 26 June, 1867 / W.A. Bell
Chest skin scalp from the chest of Sergeant Frederick Wylyams / Paul Dyck Collection, Paul Dyck Foundation
Attack at dawn [ Washita ] / Charles Schreyvogel
The pink parasol / Ernst Berke, 1954
A reconnoitre [ reconnoiter ] / Alfred Jacob Miller, 1838
Lieutenant Grummond sacrificing himself to cover the retreat, December, 1866 / Charles Schreyvogel
Sioux Indians at Fort Laramie, about May, 1868: Spotted Tail (Brulé); Roman Nose (Miniconjou); Old Man Afraid of His Horses (Oglala); Lone Horn (Miniconjou); Whistling Elk; Pipe; an unidentified Indian / attributed to Alexander Gardner
Camp of Sitting Bull in the Big Horn Mountains / H.H. Cross, 1873
Little Raven, head chief of the Arapaho
Red Cloud
Sitting Bull (Oglala); Swift Bear; Spotted Tail; Julius Meyer, an interpreter; Red Cloud
Weekly ration ticket, 1882
Ration issue, Pine Ridge, c. 1880
The twilight of the Indian [Indian plowing field ] / Frederic Remington
Sitting Bull, Canada, 1878 / T.G. Anderton, Fort Walsh, Canada, R.C.M.P., Winnepeg
Last stand of the Nez Perce / Leslie's Illustrated Weekly, November, 1877
Winter quarters of Sitting Bull's band while it was imprisoned at Fort Randall, Dakota Territory, 1882
Sitting Bull, Fort Randall, 1882
Dedication of the Standing Rock, Fort Yates, about 1883: Sitting Bull, "Major" James McLaughlin
Sitting Bull and land speculators, 1888
[ Red Tomahawk astride a horse given to Sitting Bull by Buffalo Bill Cody; {returned to William F. Cody upon Sitting Bull's death / Ernie, Sylvia LaPointe, conversation, 7/29/2010, McCracken Research Library} ], 1890
Sitting Bull's two wives and two daughters {Lodge in Sight, Four Robes, Seen by Her Nation, Standing Holy / Ernie, Sylvia LaPointe, conversation, 7/29/2010, McCracken Research Library} outside his cabin on the Grand River (about twenty miles from Fort Yates) in January, 1891. The cabin was dismantled and shipped to the World's Fair in Chicago {not known by the Sitting Bull family / Ernie, Sylvia LaPointe, conversation, 7/29/2010, McCracken Research Library} in 1893, where it was hoped it would be a star attraction. [Last purported to be on Staten Island / Sylvia LaPointe, conversation, 7/29/2010, McCracken Research Library}]
Site of old Fort Phil Kearny
Burning the range / Frederic Remington
Monument of Chief Crazy Horse, Fort Robinson, Nebraska
Marker to Sitting Bull, Grand River
Call of the bugle, Custer's Last Stand, 25 June, 1876 / J.K. Ralston
Opening fight at Wounded Knee, December, 1890 / Frederic Remington
The frozen body of Big Foot, Miniconjou chief
Marguerite Zitkala-noni (Lost Bird)
Burying the dead at Wounded Knee, January, 1891
Sioux camp near Wounded Knee, South Dakota, 1891
Site of Big Foot's tent.
Maps: Plains Indian tribes druing the period, 1880-1860 [3 maps]
War path to the Rocky Mountains / Assiniboin Indian, December, 1853
Map of the Fetterman Massacre / based on one drawn by Colonel Carrington.
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