Text from back cover:
“How well we know the stereotype of the rugged Plains Indian: killer of buffalo, dressed in quilldecorated buckskin, elaborately feathered eaddress, and leather moccasins, living in an animal skin teepee, master of the dog and horse, and stranger to vegetables. But this lifestyle, once limited almost exclusively to the Apaches, flourished no more than a couple hundred years. It is not representative of most Native Americans of today or yesterday. Indeed, the “buffalo aslifestyle” phenomenon is a direct result of European influence…”