By William C. Meadows
Reading where names, geographical wisdom, and cultural institutions of the Kiowa from the earliest recorded resources to the current, "Kiowa Ethnogeography" is the main in-depth learn of its variety within the realm of Plains Indian tribal research. Linking geography to political and social alterations, William Meadows applies a chronological strategy that demonstrates a cultural evolution in the Kiowa neighborhood. Preserved in either linguistic and cartographic types, the suggestions of position, fatherland, intertribal sharing of land, non secular perform, and different elements of Kiowa lifestyles are clarified intimately. local non secular relationships to land (termed 'geosacred' by means of the writer) are rigorously documented as well.Meadows additionally presents an research of the single recognized extant Kiowa map of Black Goose, its specific pictographic position labels, and its dating to reservation-era land regulations. extra insurance of rivers, lakes, and army forts makes this a remarkably accomplished and illuminating advisor.
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