Anyone can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the prairie,” wrote Willa Cather, author of “O Pioneers!,” the ...

The buffalo supplied the Plains Indians -- Blood ... the traffic was so heavy that an independent native police force was established to ensure everyone followed the rules. The hunting site ...

The enforced reservation system meant native, nomadic tribes could live ... Not uncommonly, Plains Indians also made beautifully decorated, cow-leather pouches to carry and protect their tickets.

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 ...

A tornado, too! So, these things are much greater than a human being and Plains Indian people felt this — the enormous power of Nature! What kept Native Americans so faithful to the land?

which nearly wiped out the Native Americans of New England, to the Trail of Tears, Little Big Horn and other tragedies in subsequent years. Violent conflicts with Plains Indians increased sharply ...

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 ...

A tornado, too! So, these things are much greater than a human being and Plains Indian people felt this — the enormous power of Nature! What kept Native Americans so faithful to the land?