Colin F. Taylor and Hugh A. Dempsey (eds.)

The People of the Buffalo (vol. 1)

The Plains Indians of North America

Military Art, Warfare and Change

Essays in Honor of John C. Ewers

Leading North American and European scholars have contributed to this unique project – a memorial for the esteemed Dr. John Canfield Ewers, the late Senior Ethnologist of the Smithsonian Institution and the pre-eminent ethnographer of the North American Plains Indian in our time in two volumes.

The call for papers was responded, as Bill Holm puts it, “from a veritable ‘Who’s Who’ of Plains scholars… These essays, in honor of John Ewers, are heartfelt homage from many persons whose work has benefited from his years of research and documentation of Plains cultures.” (p. 7)

The contents of volume 1:

Foreword by Bill Holm

Researching the Plains Indians: John C. Ewers by Colin F. Taylor

John C. Ewers: Military Art of the Plains Indians

Hugh A. Dempsey: Between Friends: Forty-Five Years of Correspondence from Blackfeet Country

Kingsley M. Bray: Omaha Rendezvous: Ethnogenesis and Warfare at a Plains Indian Trade Center

Barbara Feezor Buttes: Beading the Medicine Flowers: Mdewakanton Women and the Art of Survival

Winfield Coleman: Feeding Scalps to Thunder: Shamanic Symbolism in the Art of the Cheyenne Berdache

Raymond J. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks: Plains Indian Warfare

David F. Halaas and Andrew E. Masich: The Cheyenne Dog Soldier Ledger Book: The Rope that Ties Memory to Truth

George P. Horse Capture: A Blackfeet Willow Horse

Åke Hultkrantz and Christer Lindberg: The Last Battles Between Blackfeet and Shoshone. As Remembered by Shoshone and Tr.

Carling Malouf: This Native-American, Bear-in-the-Water (Hidatsa Warrior)

Castle McLaughlin: Lewis and Clark’s Mandan Robe: The Known and the Unknown

Richard A. Pohrt: A Painted Gros Ventre Tipi

Joseph Medicine Crow: Counting Coup and Capturing Horses (1920-1940)

Imre Nagy: Insights into Cheyenne Heraldry: Shields of an Eighteenth-Century Cheyenne Visionary

Paul Raczka: Ohkiniksi: War Medicines of the Northwest Plains

Cover image by Bill Holm. 183 pages, 140 b/w and color illustrations. Big format. Softbound.

ISBN 3-89510-101-X   50.00 US-$