Sha-Ha-Ka, A Mandan Chief

by Thomas L. Mckenney, James Hall

$750 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A fine image from McKenney and Hall's 'Indian Tribes of North America': `One of the most important works ever published on the American Indians' Field ,` a landmark in American culture' Horan and an invaluable contemporary record of a vanished way of life. Shahaka, or Coyote c. 1765 - c. 1810 was known to Lewis and Clark as Big White. He was a large, affable man, and unusually talkative, a trait despised by Native Americans generally. Chief of the Lower Village of

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