Sioux migrations

[inkpaduta1981]

I'ld like reading books about the period of Sioux migrations, the first conflicts against Crows, Shoshones, Pawnees, the first contacts with the White Men, then I'ld reading books about 1600, 1700 until 1850.
This phase is discussed very well in George Hyde's books: Red Cloud's folk and Spotted Tail's folk, and in the novel "Hanta Yo" too, but I'ld deepen this argument. Help me! Thanks.

[grahamew]

Pekka Hamalainen's The Rise and Fall of Plains Indian Horse Cultures (American History Vol. 90; No. 3; 2003)

Richard White's The Winning of the West: The Expansion of the Western Sioux in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Journal of American History 65; Sept. 1978)

Kingsley Bray's The Political History of the Oglala Sioux, Parts 1 and 2 (English Westerners' American Indian Studies series). I don't have my copies to hand, but the publication date of the second part was 1985

Kingsley Bray's Teton Sioux Population History, 1655-1881 (Nebraska History 75; No. 2; Summer, 1994)

Gary Clayton Anderson's Kinsmen of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1850-1862 (1984)

Jeffrey Ostler's The Plains Sioux and US Colonialism from Lewis and Clark to Wounded Knee (2004)

An interesting book on later migrations is David G. McCrady's Living with Strangers: The Nineteenth Century Sioux and the Canadian-American Borderlands (2006). Unfortunately, it doesn't go beyond Sitting Bull's return to the US Canada, despite the title.

[grahamew]

I forgot - one particularly good book about tribal warfare on the northern Plains and the various tribal migrations:

Anthony McGinnis' Counting Coup and Cutting Horses: Intertribal Warfare on the Northern Plains 1738-1889 (Cordillera Press, Colorado, 1990)

I'm pretty sure this is out of print and it's criminal that one of the majors in this field (i.e. Oklahoma and Nebraska) haven't picked this up. Great book.

[inkpaduta1981]

I wanna thank ya, grahamew! Thank you very much, but unfortunaley some of these books are not available, and I'm from Italy, so I don't have access to journals and newspapers (as Journal of American History). But certainly the Gary Clayton Anderson's book is available, and I can buy it!

[grahamew]

Make sure it's what you want - it might not go back as far as you'd like.