This article includes supplemental material to the “Indians of Texas and the Southern Plains” article. Both articles combined covers The Great Plains regions. This article discusses the native nations located in the northern Great Plains region that stretches from the Great Lakes and Mississippi River in the east to the Rocky Mountains in the West. Some tribes traveled regularly into to area now claimed by Canada. The southern part of the plains includes Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri and Colorado. Without a doubt the best known of the nations in the region are the Lakota. However, they faced many rivals in their quest to become the rulers of the northern plains.

Because of the lore of Crazy Horse and the battle of Little Big Horn, a vast number of books have been written on tribes in the area. The bibliography listed below contains only a fraction of the available books on the region. It should be remembered that the focus of my series of articles is on the military aspects of the native nations rather than a cultural history. I am trying to make the reader more aware of the large number of conflicts that occurred between various native nations as well as against Euro-Americans.

“The American Indian Wars” by John Tebbel and Keith Jennison, Bonanza press, 1960.
“Atlas of the North American Indian” by Carl Waldman, Facts on File. 1985.
“Battles and Skirmishes of the Great Sioux War, 1876-77” by Jerome A Greene, U of Oklahoma Press, 1993.
"The Fighting Cheyennes” by George B. Grinnell, U of Oklahoma Press, 1915.
“Indians of the Plains” by Robert Lowie, American Museum of Natural History, 1954.
‘The Indians of Texas’ by W.W. Newcomb. University of Texas Press, 1990 edition.
“Indian Wars of the Great Plains”. Stephen Longstreet. Indian Head Books, 1970.
“The Indian Wars of the West” by Paul Wellman, Doubleday, 1934. Typical of the books written during the early 1900s. It relies on the writings of Americans so is very one-sided.
“Little Big Horn” by Pete Panzari, Osprey Press,
“The Tribes of the Sioux Nation” by Michael Johnson, Osprey Press, London, 2000.
“To Life and Die in the West” by Jason Hook and Martin Pegler, Osprey Press, London, 1999. This is a special edition that includes three previously released titles. The “American Plains Indians” and the “US Cavalryman” sections pertain to our area.
“War Cries On Horseback” by Stephen Longstreet. Doubleday Publishers, 1970.
“Warpath” by Stanley Vestal, Bison Books, 1934.
“The Way of the Warrior” by Henry Woodhead editor Time-Life Books, 1993.

Our Place in the Sun The Northern Great Plains

Bibliography
Plains Indians Colors for Uniforms
Native Nations of the Great Northern Plains
Warrior Societies
Weapons and Warfare on the Plains
Examples of Warrior Dress from Artwork of the Region

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