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 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 ...

I was saddened to watch Ken Burns’ documentary about the near extinction of the buffalo and the resulting demise of the Native American plains culture. Between 1800 and 1890 about 13 million ...

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 ...

Deeper forces were at play, and a larger context of wars between Plains Indians and the encroaching U.S. government charged the events of December 29. Created in the aftermath of the Civil War ...

White Americans won the West because everything was on their side. The Native Americans fought bravely, but the odds were completely against them.

These events fit the pattern of the late 19th century, a time of nearly constant conflict between the American government and Plains Indians. At his second presidential inauguration in 1873 ...