Pawnee Passage, 1870-1875
first edition
1990 · Norman
by Blaine, Martha Royce
Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1990 First edition. xvi, 345pp. 32 photographs, 5 tables, 3 maps. Notes, bibliography, index. Brown cloth. Previous owner's name on endpaper, else a very fine copy with very fine pictorial dust jacket. The story of the Pawnee removal to a new reservation, which resulted in a deliberate reduction of the chiefs' powers, restrictions on traditional activities (such as bison hunting and horse stealing) and other harsh changes because of government policies, resulting in the shattering of Pawnee lifeways.. (Inventory #: 7754)