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Cookie akzeptierenJoseph Jablow
The Cheyenne in Plains Indian Trade Relations, 1795-1840
- UNIV OF NEBRASKA PR
- 1994
- Taschenbuch
- 100 Seiten
- ISBN 9780803275812
In this illuminating book, the Plains Indians come to life as shrewd traders. The Cheyennes played a vital role in an intricate and expanding barter system that connected tribes with each other and with whites. Joseph Jablow follows the Cheyennes, who by the beginning of the nineteenth century had migrated westward from their villages in present-day Minnesota into the heart of the Great Plains. Formerly horticulturists, they became nomadic hunters on horseback and, gradually, middlemen for the exchange of commodities between whites and Indian tribes. Jablow shows the effect that trading had on the lives of the Indians and outlines the tribal antagonisms that arose from
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