Indians and a changing frontier (1993)

From Black Hawk Slept Here

Christian F. Feest and R. David Edmunds (authors); and Sarah E. Cooke and Rachel Ramadhyani (eds.), Indians and a Changing Frontier: The Art of George Winter, Indianapolis, IN: Indiana Historical Society and the Tippecanoe County Historical Association, 1993.

reference-code: winter-1993

External links

• A compilation of reviews, www.indianahistory.org
• Wikipedia article about George Winter
• Spokesrider blog article about a ride to Bruce Lake

As I wrote at spokesrider.com, this book has got to be one of the best bargains of the century. You can get it online for $10. I got my copy at the Indiana State Library in Indianapolis, for the same price. The originally published price was $50.

Here is some high praise from Dan Swan, its reviewer in Ethnohistory :

No other study approaches its importance as a reference work on the history of the Miami and Potawatomi Indians of the mid-nineteenth century. I would recommend the book to anthropologists and historians who have not considered works of art as potential sources of historical and ethnographic data. Edmunds' article is an excellent model for the critical assessment and potential scholarly value of these types of data. For anyone with even a passing interest in the Potawatomi and Miami Indians this book is an important source of new information and insight into culture change and an additional case study in United State Indian policy for the period.