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Indians of the Great Plains (review)

Indians of the Great Plains (review) Article Book Reviews Jesús F. de la Teja, Editor Indians of the Great Plains. By Daniel J. Gelo. (Boston: Pearson Education, 2011. Pp. 400. Illustrations, maps, figures, sources, questions for review, index. ISBN 9780131773899, $37.33 paper.) Daniel Gelo, an adoptive member of the Comanche Nation, has arguably written the most thorough and up-to-date survey of the indigenous cultures of the Great Plains available in print. Gelo discusses those groups that inhabited the High Plains and the Prairie subregions, as well as, occasionally, other groups "that ventured onto or influenced the Plains area," including Shoshones, Caddos, and Apaches (16). Gelo relies heavily on published ethnographies, but also on archaeological, linguistic, and ethnohistorical evidence, as well as on his twenty-nine years of ethnographic fieldwork among the Comanche and other Plains groups. The book covers an enormous chronological span, from prehistoric times to the present. The bulk of the text, however, consists of a meticulous description of Plains Indians cultures in a somewhat vague ethnographic past that often corresponds to pre-reservation times (dates vary from group to group, with the latest groups entering reservations in the last quarter of the nineteenth century). Gelo highlights the diversity of pre-reservation Plains Indian cultures, http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southwestern Historical Quarterly Texas State Historical Association

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Article Book Reviews Jesús F. de la Teja, Editor Indians of the Great Plains. By Daniel J. Gelo. (Boston: Pearson Education, 2011. Pp. 400. Illustrations, maps, figures, sources, questions for review, index. ISBN 9780131773899, $37.33 paper.) Daniel Gelo, an adoptive member of the Comanche Nation, has arguably written the most thorough and up-to-date survey of the indigenous cultures of the Great Plains available in print. Gelo discusses those groups that inhabited the High Plains and the Prairie subregions, as well as, occasionally, other groups "that ventured onto or influenced the Plains area," including Shoshones, Caddos, and Apaches (16). Gelo relies heavily on published ethnographies, but also on archaeological, linguistic, and ethnohistorical evidence, as well as on his twenty-nine years of ethnographic fieldwork among the Comanche and other Plains groups. The book covers an enormous chronological span, from prehistoric times to the present. The bulk of the text, however, consists of a meticulous description of Plains Indians cultures in a somewhat vague ethnographic past that often corresponds to pre-reservation times (dates vary from group to group, with the latest groups entering reservations in the last quarter of the nineteenth century). Gelo highlights the diversity of pre-reservation Plains Indian cultures,

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Southwestern Historical Quarterly – Texas State Historical Association

Published: Sep 16, 2012

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