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White Man's Paper Trail: Grand Councils and Treaty-Making on the Central Plains , and: War Dance at Fort Marion: Plains Indian War Prisoners (review)

White Man's Paper Trail: Grand Councils and Treaty-Making on the Central Plains , and: War Dance... 2007Book Reviews95 to witness on the daily news, exterminatory conflicts are not circumscribed to the past either. Given its scope and significance, Robins's remarkable book is likely to set the pace for future comparative research on the subject. Texas State University-San MarcosJoaquín Rivaya-Martínez White Man 's Paper Trail: Grand Councils and Treaty-Making on the CentralPlains. By Stan Hoig. (Boulder, Colo.: University Press of Colorado, 2006. Pp. 256. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0870818295. $34.95, cloth.) WarDance at Fort Marion: Plains Indian WarPrisoners. By Brad D. Lookingbill. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. Pp. 304. Acknowledgments, illustrations, map, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0806137398. $29.95, clotii.) The saga of the nineteenth-century Plains Indian Wars has been well-documented in a host of insightful studies, but less attention has been directed toward the diplomatic aspects ofthese encounters and the fates of Native American survivors of the conflicts. This is especially true for the history of the Southern Plains, where the Red River War of 1874-1875 so thoroughly destroyed Comanche, Kiowa, and Southern Cheyenne martial power that scholars have neglected the long-term impacts of the military confrontations. Happily, the books under review explo're two important aspects of the larger story--the complex http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southwestern Historical Quarterly Texas State Historical Association

White Man's Paper Trail: Grand Councils and Treaty-Making on the Central Plains , and: War Dance at Fort Marion: Plains Indian War Prisoners (review)

Southwestern Historical Quarterly , Volume 111 (1) – Jul 6, 2007

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2007Book Reviews95 to witness on the daily news, exterminatory conflicts are not circumscribed to the past either. Given its scope and significance, Robins's remarkable book is likely to set the pace for future comparative research on the subject. Texas State University-San MarcosJoaquín Rivaya-Martínez White Man 's Paper Trail: Grand Councils and Treaty-Making on the CentralPlains. By Stan Hoig. (Boulder, Colo.: University Press of Colorado, 2006. Pp. 256. Illustrations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0870818295. $34.95, cloth.) WarDance at Fort Marion: Plains Indian WarPrisoners. By Brad D. Lookingbill. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. Pp. 304. Acknowledgments, illustrations, map, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. ISBN 0806137398. $29.95, clotii.) The saga of the nineteenth-century Plains Indian Wars has been well-documented in a host of insightful studies, but less attention has been directed toward the diplomatic aspects ofthese encounters and the fates of Native American survivors of the conflicts. This is especially true for the history of the Southern Plains, where the Red River War of 1874-1875 so thoroughly destroyed Comanche, Kiowa, and Southern Cheyenne martial power that scholars have neglected the long-term impacts of the military confrontations. Happily, the books under review explo're two important aspects of the larger story--the complex

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