This book provides a comprehensive study on the social organization and customs of the Kiowa tribe in North America. Lowie draws on first-hand accounts and ethnographical research to describe the intricate rituals, kinship ties, and political structures of the Kiowa people. A valuable resource for anyone interested in indigenous cultures and social anthropology.
First published in 1954, Robert H. Lowie's Indians of the Plains surveys in a lucid and concise fashion the history and culture of the Indian tribes between the Mississippi and the Rocky Mountains. The author visited various tribes from 1906 to 1931, observing them carefully, participating in their lifeways, studying their languages, and listening to their legends and tales. After a half century of study, Lowie wrote this book, praised by anthropologists as the synthesis of a lifetime's work.A preface by Raymond J. DeMallie situates the book in the history of American anthropology and describes information and changes in interpretation that have emerged since Indians of the Plains first appeared.