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Indigenous War Painting of the Plains
An Illustrated History
Offering first-time vivid access to the key works of war painting preserved in 37 museums throughout North America and Europe, Indigenous War Painting of the Plains illuminates distinctions between painting styles of different tribes, reveals how they influenced each other and changed over time, and, finally, conveys a deep understanding of how war painting developed in relation to profound social changes in Plains Indian cultures.
Dakota Modern
The Art of Oscar Howe
Oscar Howe (1915–1983) committed his artistic career to the preservation, relevance, and ongoing expression of his Dakota culture. He proved that art could be simultaneously modern and embedded in...
Fire Light
The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist
Artist, teacher, and Red Progressive, Angel De Cora (1869–1919) painted Fire Light to capture warm memories of her Nebraska Winnebago childhood. In this biography, Linda M. Waggoner draws on that glowing image to illuminate De Cora’s life and artistry, which until now have been largely overlooked by scholars.
Framing First Contact
From Catlin to Russell
In Framing First Contact author Kate Elliott looks at paintings by artists from George Catlin to Charles M. Russell and explores what first contact images tell us about the process of constructing national myths—and how those myths acquired different meanings at different points in our nation’s history.
Northwest Coast and Alaska Native Art
This full-color publication highlights beautiful objects—both useful and ceremonial—made by the Indigenous artists of the Northwest Coast and Alaska.
Hide, Wood, and Willow
Cradles of the Great Plains Indians
Despite decades of political and social upheaval among Plains tribes, the significance of the cradle endures. Today, a baby can still be found wrapped up and wide-eyed, supported by a baby board. With its blend of stunning full-color images and detailed information, this book is a fitting tribute to an important and ongoing tradition among indigenous cultures.
Painting Culture, Painting Nature
Stephen Mopope, Oscar Jacobson, and the Development of Indian Art in Oklahoma
Whereas other books have emphasized the promotion of Indian art by Euro-Americans, this book is the first to focus on the agency of the Kiowa artists within the context of their collaboration with Jacobson. The volume is further enhanced by full-color reproductions of the artists’ works and rare historical photographs
Plains Indian Buffalo Cultures
Art from the Paul Dyck Collection
From hide clothing, bear claw necklaces, and shields to buffalo robes, tipis, and decorative equipment made for prized horses, the artworks in the Paul Dyck Collection provide a firsthand glimpse into the traditions, adaptations, and innovations of Great Plains Indian cultures.
Transnational Frontiers
The American West in France
For French artists and enthusiasts, the West served as a fulcrum for the construction of an American cultural identity, offering a chance to debate ideas of primitivism and masculinity that bolstered their own colonialist discourses. By examining this process, Burns reveals the interconnections between American western art and Franco-American artistic exchange between 1865 and 1915.
Five Years in America
The Menominee Collection of Antoine Marie Gachet
This unusually well-documented collection, preserved at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Fribourg, is here published for the first time in its entirety as Five Years in America: The Menominee Collection of Antoine Marie Gache, a catalogue raisonné together with a selection of Gachet’s hitherto unpublished drawings held by the Capuchin Friary in Fribourg.

Indigenous War Painting of the Plains
An Illustrated History
Offering first-time vivid access to the key works of war painting preserved in 37 museums throughout North America and Europe, Indigenous War Painting of the Plains illuminates distinctions between painting styles of different tribes, reveals how they influenced each other and changed over time, and, finally, conveys a deep understanding of how war painting developed in relation to profound social changes in Plains Indian cultures.
Dakota Modern
The Art of Oscar Howe
Oscar Howe (1915–1983) committed his artistic career to the preservation, relevance, and ongoing expression of his Dakota culture. He proved that art could be simultaneously modern and embedded in...
Fire Light
The Life of Angel De Cora, Winnebago Artist
Artist, teacher, and Red Progressive, Angel De Cora (1869–1919) painted Fire Light to capture warm memories of her Nebraska Winnebago childhood. In this biography, Linda M. Waggoner draws on that glowing image to illuminate De Cora’s life and artistry, which until now have been largely overlooked by scholars.
Framing First Contact
From Catlin to Russell
In Framing First Contact author Kate Elliott looks at paintings by artists from George Catlin to Charles M. Russell and explores what first contact images tell us about the process of constructing national myths—and how those myths acquired different meanings at different points in our nation’s history.
Northwest Coast and Alaska Native Art
This full-color publication highlights beautiful objects—both useful and ceremonial—made by the Indigenous artists of the Northwest Coast and Alaska.
Hide, Wood, and Willow
Cradles of the Great Plains Indians
Despite decades of political and social upheaval among Plains tribes, the significance of the cradle endures. Today, a baby can still be found wrapped up and wide-eyed, supported by a baby board. With its blend of stunning full-color images and detailed information, this book is a fitting tribute to an important and ongoing tradition among indigenous cultures.
Painting Culture, Painting Nature
Stephen Mopope, Oscar Jacobson, and the Development of Indian Art in Oklahoma
Whereas other books have emphasized the promotion of Indian art by Euro-Americans, this book is the first to focus on the agency of the Kiowa artists within the context of their collaboration with Jacobson. The volume is further enhanced by full-color reproductions of the artists’ works and rare historical photographs
Plains Indian Buffalo Cultures
Art from the Paul Dyck Collection
From hide clothing, bear claw necklaces, and shields to buffalo robes, tipis, and decorative equipment made for prized horses, the artworks in the Paul Dyck Collection provide a firsthand glimpse into the traditions, adaptations, and innovations of Great Plains Indian cultures.
Transnational Frontiers
The American West in France
For French artists and enthusiasts, the West served as a fulcrum for the construction of an American cultural identity, offering a chance to debate ideas of primitivism and masculinity that bolstered their own colonialist discourses. By examining this process, Burns reveals the interconnections between American western art and Franco-American artistic exchange between 1865 and 1915.
Five Years in America
The Menominee Collection of Antoine Marie Gachet
This unusually well-documented collection, preserved at the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Fribourg, is here published for the first time in its entirety as Five Years in America: The Menominee Collection of Antoine Marie Gache, a catalogue raisonné together with a selection of Gachet’s hitherto unpublished drawings held by the Capuchin Friary in Fribourg.