Plains Library Resources

Albers, Patricia and Beatrice Medicine, Eds. The Hidden Half: Studies of Plains Indian Women. Washington, D. C.: University Press of America, 1983. 305.48897 H632

Bancroft-Hunt, Norman.  The Indians of the Great Plains.  New York:  Morrow, 1982.

Brown, Joseph Epes, Ed.  The Sacred Pipe:  Black Elk's Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux.  Norman:  University of Oklahoma Press, 1953.

Clark, Wissler.  North American Indians of the Plains.  NY:  American Museum of Natural History, 1927.

Conn, Richard.  A Persistent Vision:  Art of the Reservation Days.  Denver:  Denver Art Museum, 1986.

----------.  Circles of the World:  Traditional Art of the Plains Indians.  Denver:  Denver Art Museum, 1982.

Densmore, Frances.  Mandan and Hidatsa Music.  New York:  Da Capo Press, 1972.

----------.  Pawnee Music.  New York:  Da Capo Press, 1972.

The Detroit Institute of Arts.  Art of the American Indian Frontier:  A Portfolio.  New York:  New Press, 1995.

Dunn, Dorothy.  American Indian Painting of the Southwest and Plains Areas.  Albuquerque: The University of New Mexico Press, 1968.

Frazier, Ian. On the Rez.  New York:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000.

Greene, Candace S. and Russell Thornton, Eds. The Year the Stars Fell: Lakota Winter Counts at the Smithsonian. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian and Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007. 978.004 Y39

Horse Capture, Joseph D. and George P. Horse Capture. Beauty, Honor and Tradition: the Legacy of Plains Indian Shirts. Washington, D. C.: National Museum of the American Indian, 2001. 391.008997 H817v

Linderman, Frank Bird.  Pretty-Shield, Medicine Woman of the Crows.  New York:  John Day Co., 1972, c. 1932.

Marra, Ben.  Powwow:  Images Along the Red Road.  New York:  Abrams, 1996.

Marriott, Alice Lee.  Plains Indian Mythology.  New York:  Crowell, 1975.

Schlesier, Karl H.  The Archaeological Past of Historic Groups.  Norman:  University of Oklahoma Press, 1994.

----------.  Wolves of Heaven:  Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, and Prehistoric Origins.  Drawings by Dick West.  Norman:  University of Oklahoma
    Press, 1987.

Tanner, Clara Lee.  Apache Indian Baskets.  Tucson:  University of Arizona Press, 1982.

Voget, Fred.  The Shoshoni-Crow Sun Dance.  Norman:  University of Oklahoma Press, 1984.

Walker, James R.  Lakota Myth.  Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, c. 1983.

Wood, W. Raymond and Margot Liberty.  Anthropology of the Great Plains.  Lincoln:  University of Nebraska Press, c. 1980.
 

Music and Videos

Backbone of the World:  The Blackfeet.  Bozeman:  Rattlesnake Productions, 1997.  (Video)

Powwow Songs.  NY:  New World Records,1986.  (CD)