Changing Military Patterns of the Great Plains Indians / Edition 1

by Frank Raymond Secoy, John C. Ewers

Overview

"As a historical study covering not only tribal changes, conflicts and movements, but also the effect of horse and gun on the balance of power and on the fur trade, this is both interesting and stimulating reading."-New Mexico Historical Review

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803292093
Publisher:	UNP - Nebraska Paperback
Publication date:	01/01/1992
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	132
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Frank Raymond Secoy wrote this classic work while at Columbia University in the early 1950s. In his introduction, John C. Ewers considers the influence of Secoy's book on scholars since its original publication in 1953. Ethnologist emeritus at the Smithsonian Institution, Ewers is the author of The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture (1955), Blackfeet: Their Art and Culture (1987), and other works.