The Great Plains has been central to academic and popular visions of Native American warfare, largely because the region’s well-documented violence was so cen

"Anthropologists from across the Plains critically examine regional themes of warfare from pre-Contact and post-Contact periods and assess how war shaped and re

In this volume, Douglas B. Bamforth offers an archaeological overview of the Great Plains, the vast, open grassland bordered by forests and mountain ranges situ

This book uses archaeology to tell 15,000 years of history of the indigenous people of the North American Great Plains.

Battles of the Red River War unearths a long-buried record of the collision of two cultures. In 1874, U.S. forces led by Col. Ranald S. Mackenzie carried out a