Used by Kevin Costner as a resource while making the film Dances with Wolves, this classic text is avidly sought after by anyone with an interest in Native Amer

The culture, arts, crafts and religion of the Plains Indians. Profusely illustrated.

Describes the religious organizations and the ceremonies that characterized the thirty-five Indian nations of the Great Plains.

To the Plains Indians, the Sun Dance has traditionally been a profound religious ceremony, the highest form of worship of the Most Holy One. Thomas E. Mails was