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The mystic warriors of the Plains / Thomas E. Mails ; [with a new afterword by the author].

by Mails, Thomas E.

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New York : Marlowe ; [Berkeley, Calif.] : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2002.

Indians of North America -- Great Plains.

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http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0832/2002278415-d.html

156924538X (pbk.)

9781569245385 (pbk.)

xvii, 620 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Origin, distribution, and nature of the people of the plains -- Manner of daily life -- Social customs -- Personal qualities -- Form of Government -- Religion-supernatural beliefs -- Religion-the practices of medicine -- Religion-visions and personal power -- Religion-purification -- Religion-Thanksgiving -- Religion-death and the life after -- The buffalo and the horse -- An overview of arts and crafts -- Painting -- quillwork and beadwork -- Achievement marks -- Clothing -- Hair styles, jewelry, and headdresses -- Bows, arrows and quivers -- Lances, knives, clubs, hatchets, and guns -- Shields -- The birth and training of the boy -- The mature warrior on the field of action -- The redistribution and decline of the people of the plains.

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