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the most potent Indian power on the Great Plains. They had taken the territory from the Kiowas and the Crows, and they had signed a treaty with the United States guaranteeing their rights to the ...
As white explorers and settlers entered Western territory, they disrupted a centuries-old culture — that of the Plains Indians. The arrival of the railroad and, with it, more permanent and ...
The world of Plains Indians and of other American Indians in the West had existed for several centuries. The eighteenth century, in particular, represents the West as we think about it before the ...
From pennies to bricks, people of the Panhandle first gave whatever they could for the museum, including local artifacts ...
Plains Indians had limited contact with the white man before the mid-1800s. The Canadian west had already been mapped but there were only a handful of explorers, missionaries and fur traders on ...
The buffalo supplied the Plains Indians -- Blood, Sarcee, Peigan and Blackfoot among others - with almost everything they needed. Hides were dressed and made into clothing and stretched onto poles ...
Joanna B. Pinneo Plains Indian artist Howling Wolf created these detailed drawings of the Sand Creek massacre about a decade after it happened. Allen Memorial Art Museum / Oberlin College When the ...
Not to be outdone by the counterparts on the Trotters, the young Plains-Hot Springs baseball co-op (Savage Horsemen) won their first game of the season last week in a big way. The Trotters picked up ...
HPAIRI is a valuable and important resource for American Indian tribes and scholars. It is accessible for use in both Indigenous-driven research and for research initiated by University of Wyoming ...
White Americans won the West because everything was on their side. The Native Americans fought bravely, but the odds were completely against them.