W

Wampum, 153

Ware, Eugene E, 242 -243

War of 1812, 189

Washington, George, 190

Washita, Battle of, 243

Wealth: in the market economy, 28 ;

theories of in traditional societies, 133 -136

Webb, Walter Prescott: The Great Plains, 1 -2

Weber, David J.: The Taws Trappers: The Fur Trade in the Far Southwest 1540-1846 , 113 , 114 , 120 , 121

White, Richard, 22 , 221 -222, 251

White Antelope, 239 , 240

Whiteshield, Henry, 276

White Thunder, 14 , 123

Whitman, Marcus, 175

Wilbert, Johannes, 139 , 140

Williams, William Carlos, 77

Winter, Joseph C., 138 -140

Wise, Jack, 254 , 268 , 269 , 272 , 274

Wislizenus, Frederick A., 175

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 60

Wolf, Eric, 104

Wootton, R. L. (Uncle Dick), 28 , 102 , 202

Worcester, Donald E., 147 , 150

World formation: importance of ritual to, 49 -55, 59 , 85 , 281 -282;

in southwestern Plains, 1 , 16 -22, 221

Wounded Knee, 31

Wright, John K., 1

Wright, Lawrence, 6 , 38 -39