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This is an excellent and engaging history of the Pawnee, Otoe-Missouria, Omaha, and Ponca tribes of the Great Plains. Their story is so different from the better-known histories of the Lakota or Comanche, but so important for understanding the history of the midwest. The book begins in the late eighteenth century and sweeps across to the end of the nineteenth. The complex dynamics that ended traditional ways of life--disease, decimation of the buffalo, intrusion by white Americans, corruption and inhumanity by the US government and its military, and raids conducted by other Native Americans--pushed these groups out of their homelands step by step. Pair this with Margaret Jacobs's excellent work, After One Hundred Winters.
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