Titlebook: Our Hearts Fell to the Ground; Plains Indian Views Colin G. Calloway Book 1996 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 1996

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Horses, Guns, and Smallpox,iseases, which penetrated the plains far in advance of white traders and settlers and generated dramatic changes in Indian culture, social organization, trade, warfare, and tribal location. The equestrian hunting peoples enjoyed unprecedented freedom and prosperity in this era, but their new way of

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The Life and Death of Four Bears,his day on the upper Missouri River. He was without peer as a warrior, but he was also a husband, father, artist, and ceremonial leader. The American artist George Catlin described him as an “extraordinary man,” handsome, generous, and brave, “the most popular man in the nation.”. The life of Four B

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Counting Coups and Fighting for Survival,ght for prestige or revenge and waged ritualized battles in which counting coup carried more honor than inflicting casualties. White observers, especially Army officers accustomed to winning victories by inflicting massive losses, often were bewildered and bemused by Plains Indian warfare, dismissin

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The Agony and Anger of the Eastern Sioux,Santee, or in their own language the Dakotas, occupied western Minnesota and the upper Mississippi valley. Between the Mississippi and the Missouri lived the Yanktons and Yanktonais, or Nakotas. West of the Missouri ranged the Teton, or Lakotas, who constituted about half of the entire Sioux populat

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The Slaughter of the Buffalo,nment guaranteed to the Indians the right to continue hunting on certain lands “so long as the buffalo may range thereon in such numbers as to justify the chase.”. But even as the American peace commissioners offered the Indians assurances that they would be allowed to continue their buffalo-hunting

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The Battle on the Greasy Grass, 1876,merican history are as clearly etched in the popular imagination as the last stand of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer and his Seventh Cavalry. The image of Custer and his gallant band surrounded by hordes of Indian warriors has served as a symbol of Indian-white conflict, of “civilization

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