People of the Wind River by H E Stamm

People of the Wind River by H E Stamm

People of the Wind River, the first book-length history of the Eastern Shoshones, tells the tribe's story through eight tumultuous decades--from 1825, when they reached mutual accommodations with the first permanent white settlers in Wind River country, to 1900, when the death of Chief Washakie marked a final break with their traditional lives as nineteenth-century Plains Indians. Henry E. Stamm, IV, draws on extensive research in primary documents, including Indian agency records, letters, newspapers, church archives, and tax accounts, and on interviews with descendants of early Shoshone leaders. He describes the creation of the Eastern political division of the tribe and its migration from the Great Basin to the High Plains of present-day Wyoming, the gift of the Sun Dance and its place in Shoshone life, and the coming of the Arapahoes.

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ISBN 13	9780806131757
ISBN 10	0806131756
Title	People of the Wind River
Author	H E Stamm
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	University of Oklahoma Press
Year published	1999-11-27
Number of pages	272
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