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John Canfield Ewers (1909–1997)

Author of The Blackfeet; Raiders on the Northwestern Plains

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Works by John Canfield Ewers

The Blackfeet; Raiders on the Northwestern Plains (1958) 118 copies, 1 review
Artists of the Old West (1965) 78 copies
The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture (Classics of Smithsonian Anthropology Edition) (1969) 48 copies
Indian life on the Upper Missouri (1968) 35 copies
Plains Indian Sculpture: A Traditional Art from America's Heartland (1986) 31 copies
Crow Indian Beadwork: A Descriptive and Historical Study (Contributions from the Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, V. 16.) (1985) 29 copies
Plains Indian History and Culture: Essays on Continuity and Change (1997) 27 copies
Views of a Vanishing Frontier (1984) 23 copies
Blackfeet Crafts (1986) 19 copies
After the buffalo were gone: The Louis Warren Hill, Sr., Collection of Indian Art (1985) 14 copies
O-Kee-Pa: A Religious Ceremony and Other Customs of the Mandans (1976) — Editor — 14 copies
Indian Art in Pipestone: George Catlin's Portfolio in the British Museum (1979) 13 copies
Murals in the round : painted tipis of the Kiowa and Kiowa-Apache Indians : an exhibition of tipi models made for James Mooney of the Smithsonian Institution during his field… (1978) 13 copies
George Catlin: Painter of Indians of the West (1957) 8 copies
Hair pipes in Plains Indian adornment : a study in Indian and white ingenuity (1985) 7 copies
Early White Influence Upon Plains Indian Painting George Catlin and Carl Bodmer Among the Mandan 1832-34 (1989) 5 copies
The story of the Blackfeet (1952) 5 copies
Gustavus Sohon's Portraits of Flathead and Pend D'orielle Indians, 1854; Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Volume 110, Number 7 (1948) 4 copies
The Emergence of the Plains Indian As the Symbol of the North American Indian (1965) 4 copies
Charles Bird King, Painter Of Indian Visitors To The Nation's Capital (1954) 3 copies
Teton Dakota: Ethnology and History (Revised Edition) (1938) 3 copies
Images of a Vanished Life: Plains Indian Drawings from the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (1985) 3 copies
Blackfeet Indians : Ethnological Report on the Blackfeet and Gros Ventre Tribes of Indians (American Indian Ethnohistory : Plains Indians) (1974) 3 copies
A century of American Indian exhibits in the Smithsonian Institution 3 copies
Plains Indian Painting: A Description of an Aboriginal American Art (1979) 3 copies
Adventures of Zenas Leonard Fur Trader (1959) 2 copies
Gustavus Sohon's Portraits of Flathead and Pend D'orielle Indians, 1854; Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections Volume 110, Number 7 1 copy
The horse in Blackfoot Indian culture. 1 copy
Thomas M. Easterly's Pioneer Daguerreotypes of Plains Indians 1 copy
Blackfoot Indian Smoking Pipes 1 copy
Chippewa Indians, Vol. 6: Ethnological report on the Chippewa Cree tribe of the Rocky Boy Reservation and the Little Shell band of Indians. 1 copy
"Influence of the Fur Trade on Indians of the Northern Plains," 1 copy
"The Influence of Epidemics on the Indian Population and Cultures of Texas," 1 copy
Artist Explorers of the 1830s - Catlin, Bodmer, Miller (1963) 1 copy
Were the Blackfeet Rich in Horses? (1943) 1 copy
Indian Culture and the Horse: Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture 1 copy
Blackfoot Indian Pipes and Pipemaking (1999) 1 copy
"Plains Indian Reactions to the Lewis and Clark Expedition," 1 copy
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Associated Works

The World of the American Indian (1974) 687 copies, 6 reviews
Narrative of the Adventures of Zenas Leonard (1839) — Editor, some editions — 97 copies, 2 reviews
The Artist in America (1967) — Contributor — 74 copies
Five Indian Tribes of the Upper Missouri: Sioux, Arickaras, Assiniboines, Crees, Crows (1961) — Editor — 73 copies, 1 review
Changing Military Patterns of the Great Plains Indians (17th Century Through Early 19th Century) (1992) — Introduction — 36 copies
The Natural Man Observed: a Study of Catlin's Indian Gallery (1979) — Foreword, some editions — 27 copies, 1 review
Splendid Heritage : Masterpieces of Native American Art from the Masco Collection (1995) 17 copies
Unbridled: The Western Horse in Fiction and Nonfiction (2005) — Contributor — 6 copies

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The Blackfeet (Civilization of the American Indian) by John C. Ewers
A good book for the artifacts, and general life styles in the horse Indian phase, but quite sad about the early reservation experience, especially in the USA. The prose is workmanlike, and the mapping unexceptional. Not a cheerful entertaining read, but it wasn't meant for that. It has had several updated editions, thus even more useful in later editions.
May 9, 2025 (Edited)

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