TY - BOOK AU - Mails,Thomas E. TI - The mystic warriors of the Plains SN - 156924538X AV - 002 E 78 M222m 1995 U1 - 978/.00497 PY - 1995/// CY - New York PB - Marlowe & Company KW - Indians of North America KW - Great Plains N1 - Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1972; Includes bibliographical references (p. [603]-608) and index; 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0832/2002278415-d.html ER -