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Cover image: George Catlin, “Rainmaking among the Mandan,” from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison Jr.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bohr, Roland.

Gifts from the thunder beings: indigenous archery and European firearms in the Northern Plains and Central Subarctic, 1670–1870 / Roland Bohr.

pages cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8032-4838-0 (cloth: alk. paper)

ISBN 978-0-8032-5438-1 (epub)

ISBN 978-0-8032-5439-8 (mobi)

ISBN 978-0-8032-5437-4 (pdf)

1. Indian weapons—Great Plains—History. 2. Indian weapons—Canada, Northern—History. 3. Bow and arrow—Great Plains—History. 4. Bow and arrow—Canada, Northern—History. 5. Firearms—Great Plains—History. 6. Firearms—Canada, Northern—History. I. Title.

E98.A65B64 2014

355.8'241—dc23

2013039217

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