Indigenous peoples -- Culture, Indigenous Peoples--History Indigenous peoples -- North America 

2 volumes (xvi, 1,360 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 29 cm 

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1086-1296) and index.

Contents:Contents of volume 1: Introduction / Raymond J. DeMallie
History of archeological research / Waldo R. Wedel and Richard A. Krause
History of ethnological and ethnohistorical research / Raymond J. DeMallie and John C. Ewers
Environment and subsistence / Waldo R. Wedel and George C. Frison
The languages of the Plains: introduction / Ives Goddard
The Algonquian languages of the Plains / Ives Goddard
Caddoan languages / Douglas R. Parks
Siouan languages / Douglas R. Parks and Robert L. Rankin
Hunting and gathering tradition: Canadian Plains / Ian Dyck and Richard E. Morlan
Hunting and gathering tradition: Northwestern and Central Plains / George C. Frison
Hunting and gathering tradition: Southern Plains / Susan C. Vehik
Plains Woodland tradition / Alfred E. Johnson
Plains village tradition: Central / Waldo R. Wedel
Plains village tradition: Middle Missouri / W. Raymond Wood
Plains village tradition: Coalescent / Richard A. Krause
Plains village tradition: Southern / Robert E. Bell and Robert L. Brooks
Plains village tradition: Eastern periphery and Oneota tradition / Dale R. Henning
Plains village tradition: Western Periphery / James H. Gunnerson
Plains village tradition: Postcontact / Donald J. Lehmer
History of the United States Plains until 1850 / William R. Swagerty
History of the United States Plains since 1850 / Loretta Fowler
History of the Canadian Plains until 1870 / Jennifer S.H. Brown
History of the Canadian Plains since 1870 / David McCrady
Hidatsa / Frank Henderson Stewart
Mandan / W. Raymond Wood and Lee Irwin
Arikara / Douglas R. Parks
Three Affiliated Tribes / Mary Jane Schneider
Omaha / Margot P. Liberty, W. Raymond Wood, and Lee Irwin
Ponca / Donald N. Brown and Lee Irwin
Iowa / Mildred Mott Wedel
Otoe and Missouria / Marjorie M. Schweitzer
Kansa / Garrick A. Bailey and Gloria A. Young
Osage / Garrick A. Bailey
Quapaw / Gloria A. Young and Michael P. Hoffman
Pawnee / Douglas R. Parks
Wichita / William W. Newcomb, Jr.
Kitsai / Douglas R. Parks
Assiniboine / Raymond J. DeMallie and David Reed Miller
Stoney / Ian A.L. Getty and Erik D. Gooding
Blackfoot / Hugh A. Dempsey
Sarcee / Hugh A. Dempsey
Plains Cree / Regna Darnell
Plains Ojibwa / Patricia C. Albers
Plains Métis / Diane Paulette Payment Contents of volume 2: Gros Ventre / Loretta Fowler and Regina Flannery
Crow / Fred W. Voget
Sioux until 1850 / Raymond J. DeMallie
Santee / Patricia C. Albers
Yankton and Yanktonai / Raymond J. DeMallie
Teton / Raymond J. DeMallie
Sioux, 1930-2000 / Dennis M. Christafferson
Arapaho / Loretta Fowler
Cheyenne / John H. Moore, Margot P. Liberty, and A. Terry Straus
Comanche / Thomas W. Kavanagh
Kiowa / Jerrold E. Levy
Plains Apache / Morris W. Foster and Martha McCollough
Lipan Apache / Morris E. Opler
Tonkawa / William W. Newcomb, Jr. and Thomas N. Campbell
Enigmatic groups / Douglas R. Parks
Kinship and social organization / Fred Eggan and Joseph A. Maxwell
Sun dance / JoAllyn Archambault
Intertribal religious movements / Gloria A. Young
Celebrations and giveaways / Gloria A. Young and Erik D. Gooding
Music / Gloria A. Young
Art until 1900 / Candace S. Greene
Art since 1900 / JoAllyn Archambault
Tribal traditions and records / Raymond J. DeMallie and Douglas R. Parks
Contributors.