The mystic warriors of the Plains - Mails, Thomas E. (New York : Marlowe & Company, 1995)
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.
Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1972.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [603]-608) and index.
Keywords: Indians of North America -- Great Plains