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Availability:In StockContributor:James H. Howard, Judi M. Gaiashkibos (Introduction by), Donald N. Brown (Introduction by)Publish date:2010-06-01Pages:240
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803228191ISBN-10:803228198UPC:9780803228191Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.92 x 6.58 x 0.49 inchesWeight:0.7408Product ID:SCGFZY5Z09
The culture of the Ponca Indians is less well known than their misfortunes. A model of research and clarity, The Ponca Tribe is still the most complete account of these Indians who inhabited the upper central plains. Peaceably inclined and never numerous, they built earth-lodge villages, cultivated gardens, and hunted buffalo. James H. Howard considers their historic situation in present-day South Dakota and Nebraska, their trade with Europeans and relations with the U.S. government, and, finally, their loss of land along the Niobrara River and forced removal to Indian Territory.
The tragic events surrounding the 1877 removal, culminating in the arrest and trial of Chief Standing Bear, are only part of the Ponca story. Howard, a respected ethnologist, traces the tribe's origins and early history. Aided by Ponca informants, he presents their way of life in his descriptions of Ponca lodgings, arts and crafts, clothing and ornaments, food, tools and weapons, dogs and horses, kinship system, governance, sexual practices, and religious ceremonies and dances. He tells what is known about a proud (and ultimately divided) tribe that was led down a "trail of tears."
The Ponca Tribe was originally published in 1965 as a bulletin of the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bison BooksISBN-13:9780803228191ISBN-10:803228198UPC:9780803228191Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:Indigenous Peoples in the Americas, United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:8.92 x 6.58 x 0.49 inchesWeight:0.7408Product ID:SCGFZY5Z09
James H. Howard (1925-82) is the author of The Canadian Sioux. Donald N. Brown was a professor of sociology at Oklahoma State University. Judi M. gaiashkibos, an enrolled member of the Ponca tribe of Nebraska, is executive director of the Nebraska Commission on Indian Affairs and president of the Governor's Interstate Indian Council.

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