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Looking beyond the romantic image of the triumphant mounted Indian, Pekka Hämäläinen shows that the rise of equestrian Indian societies on the Great Plains brought Native Americans both success and disaster. Horses brought some tribes wealth and power, allowing them to defy and occasionally eclipse Euro-American imperial designs, but for most tribes horses were a disruptive element that brought social inequality, ecological instability, economic devastation, and unprecedented violence. Hämäläinen identifies several distinctive horse cultures and shows that only one tribe, the Lakotas, achieved long-term stability. Attention to the Lakotas' singular success, he argues, has distorted our understanding of Plains Indian history.

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