Memory and Vision

"This welcome and long-awaited volume will be an important addition to every library concerned with art and culture on the Great Plains."—South Dakota History

"Hansen and her contributing authors have produced a volume of immense importance to scholars in a wide variety of disciplines. Each of the chapters contains a wealth of quotations that brings a living voice to the text. Color-enhanced historic photographs further add to the reader's ability to connect the remarkable pieces featured in the book with the women and men who made and used them. The true beneficiaries of the work that Hansen and the others invested in this book are Indian peoples today and their children to come. The elders, after all, have much to teach us about beauty, honor, and strength."—New Mexico Historical Review

"[A] visually stunning volume with exceptionally high-quality photographs of objects in the collections, reproduced in color with equal concern for quality. . . . Memory and Vision is essential for any library of American Indian art and serves as an excellent introduction for anyone interested in learning about the history and cultures of the Native peoples of the Great Plains."—Journal of Folklore Research

"Readers looking for a general introduction to Plains Indian culture will find this book attractive and useful..Recommended."—Choice

"Stunning photographs of people, artwork and everyday objects such as drums, dresses and dolls make reading Memory and Vision a rewarding experience."—Alaska Airlines Magazine

"This publication-based on the award-winning reinterpretation and reinstallation in 2000 of the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center in Cody, Wyoming-is much more than a catalog of that institution's collections. Illustrated with color photographs of objects and archival images and illuminated by quotes from interviews, ethnographies, and oral histories, Hansen's volume surveys the cultures of Plains people in six thematic chapters with brief interchapter essays by contemporary Plains scholars and artists Beatrice Medicine, Gerard Baker, Joseph Medicine Crow, Arthur Amiotte, and Bentley Spang."—Great Plains Quarterly

"Memory and Vision is the story of the Native American Indians of the Great Plains including such tribes as the Cheyenne, Lakota, Shoshone Blackfeet, Comanche, Hidatsa, Crow and other Plains tribes. It describes the fundamental traditions of these cultures in brilliantly colored photographs and beautifully detailed descriptions of spiritual, cultural and economic life."—Dr. Terri Maggio, Public Library Association, 2008