Counting coup and cutting horses : intertribal warfare on the Northern Plains, 1738-1889
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Counting coup and cutting horses : intertribal warfare on the Northern Plains, 1738-1889
（A bison book）
University of Nebraska Press, 2010, c1990
- : paper
Available at 1 libraries
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Bibliography: p. 233-246
Includes index
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Counting Coup and Cutting Horses is the comprehensive history of more than 150 years of intertribal warfare between northern Plains tribes and a study of the complex rivalries that prevailed among the Native societies that migrated into and around the region. It is a sweeping drama about the warriors' perpetual search for glory-from the plains of Nebraska to the grasslands of Saskatchewan, from the fields of Minnesota to the forests of Montana. It is also about the attempts of private interests (such as fur trading companies) and the U.S. government to control tribal warfare for their own purposes, and, ultimately, to end it. Anthony R. McGinnis consulted a wide variety of sources, including early travelers' accounts, government reports, and studies by other authorities, to provide a full account of the intricate cultural systems of the Arapahos, Assiniboines, Blackfeet, Sioux, Shoshonis, and Cheyennes. Depicting one of the most fascinating periods in western history, Counting Coup and Cutting Horses describes warriors such as Dull Knife, Plenty Coups, and Sitting Bull; women such as Sacagawea, Deer Little Woman, and Buffalo Calf Road; the cycle of raids and revenge; the impact of horses and guns; and the role of the American and Canadian governments.
Table of Contents
AcknowledgementsPrefaceCHAPTER ONE - From Time Immemorial . . . Deadly Enemies: Intertribal Warfare, 1738-1800CHAPTER TWO - Killed Them Like Birds: Explorers, Traders, and Intensified Warfare, 1804-1810CHAPTER THREE - Very Impatient of Insult: The Growing Complexity of Warfare, 1810-1830CHAPTER FOUR - Their Name Is A Terror: Warfare in Blackfoot and Crow Country, 1830-1850CHAPTER FIVE - War Is the Breath of Their Nostrils: The Sioux Advance on the Eastern Plains, 1830-1850CHAPTER SIX - Disregard Their Treaty Obligations: Early Treaties and the Sioux Advance, 1851-1865CHAPTER SEVEN - Scourge of the Missouri: Warfare in the Age of Sioux Suzerainty, 1865-1877CHAPTER EIGHT - Superior in Daring and Enterprise: The Climax of Warfare, 1865-1877CHAPTER NINE - A Source of Great Apprehension and Anxiety: The End of Sioux Suzerainty, 1877-1881CHAPTER TEN - Those Days of Which I Now Only Dream: The End of Intertribal Warfare, 1881-1889Bibliographical EssayEndnotesBibliographyIndex
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