3 Warriors and Weapons

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction
4. What Do We Know about Warfare on the Great Plains? 3
5. Emic Views
6. Northwestern Plains Contact-Era Warfare as Reflected in Ethnohistory and Rock Art Studies 37
7. Warriors and Weapons 66
8. Coup Counts and Corn Caches 120
9. Fortifications as Evidence for Violence
10. Rotten Palisade Posts and Rickety Baffle Gates 145
11. Ditches or Earthworks 177
12. Why Fortify? 190
13. Digging Ditches 211
14. The Alcova Redoubt 237
15. Warfare in Society and Plains History
16. Conflict and Culture Change on the Plains 267
17. Modeling Middle Missouri Warfare 275
18. Alliances, Clusters, and Spatial Analysis 295
19. The Crow Creek Massacre 318
20. Contexts for Conflict 336
21. Afterword 355
22. References Cited 363
23. Contributors 423
24. Index 425