Herman J Viola
11) Sitting Bull
Author
Series
Publisher
Raintree Publishers
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Native American who engineered the defeat ofCuster and his troops at Little Big Horn and toured with BuffaloBill's Wild West Show.
12) Warrior artists: authentic Cheyenne and Kiowa Indian ledger art drawn by Making Medicine and Zotum
Author
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
An artistic community unique in American history flourished in St. Augustine, Florida, between 1875 and 1878. Some 70 Plains Indians, imprisoned for their refusal to accept life on the reservations, produced an extraordinary body of work that chronicled their history, their lives, and their experience of exile from the freedom so central to their heritage. Called "ledger art" after the large lined books that in most cases were the first form of paper...