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Author:

Patent, Dorothy Hinshaw.

Title:

The horse and the Plains indians : a powerful partnership / Dorothy Hinshaw Patent ; photographs by William Muñoz.

Publisher:

Clarion Books,

Copyright Date:

2012

Description:

xiii, 98 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports., photos ; 27 cm.

Subject:

Indians of North America--Domestic animals--Great Plains--Juvenile literature.
Horses--Great Plains--History--Juvenile literature.
Human-animal relationships--Great Plains--History--Juvenile literature.

Other Authors:

Muñoz, William.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [94]) and index.

Contents:

Living in the Dog Days -- The miraculous horse -- More than a hundred years of horse culture -- Horses and the spirit -- Crow horse mask -- Horse gear and decoration -- Tragedies strike -- Life between two worlds -- Indians and horses today.

Summary:

Tells of the transformative period in the early 16th century when the Spaniards introduced horses to the Great Plains, and how horses became, and remain, a key part of the Plains Indians' culture.

ISBN:

0547125518
9780547125510

LCCN:

2011025954

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