The Ponca tribe /

The Ponca Indian originally lived in the states of Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska. There is now a Ponca reservation in the state of Oklahoma, as well as a group of Ponca Indians living in Nebraska.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Howard, James H. (James Henri), 1925-1982
Other Authors: Le Claire, Peter
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Washington : for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Govt. Print. Off. ; 1965.
Series:Bulletin (Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology) ; 195.
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Table of Contents:
  • Origins
  • Ponca history / by Peter Le Claire
  • Enter the Long-Knives
  • The Ponca "Trail of Tears"
  • Economy
  • Material culture and housing
  • Dress and adornment
  • Learning and art
  • Social organization
  • Religion, dances and ceremonies, and games
  • War and peace
  • Life cycle
  • Northern Ponca-southern Ponca : differential acculturation.