For many Plains Indians, being a warrior and veteran has long been the traditional pathway to male honor and status. Men and boys formed military societies to c

Warrior culture has long been an important facet of Plains Indian life. For Kiowa Indians, military societies have special significance. They serve not only to

A groundbreaking history of the rise and decline of the vast and imposing Native American empire. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a Native Ame

Many Americans know something about the Navajo code talkers in World War II—but little else about the military service of Native Americans, who have served in

Betty details the kinship patterns that underlay all social organization and social behavior among the Comanches and uses the insights gained to explain the way