The U.S. Government began to make treaties with the Plains Indians during the 1850s to 1871 when a Congressional act halted the process of treaty-making with Indian nations.

2001-05-27 04:00:00 PDT Fort Yates, N.D.-- In writing the obituary of the Great Plains, social historians have looked at the abandoned ranches, collapsed homesteads and dying towns huddled against ...

During the 1800s the Native Indian tribes of the American Plains stood tall, literally. According to a recent study published in The American Economic Review, they were then the tallest people in ...

For one, the Plains Indians ate a varied diet that included a variety of native plants, as well as buffalo and other game that typically roamed the Great Plains, Steckel said.

A book exploring Native American life on the Great Plains — and the bloody battles that ensued in the late 1800s — is the 2021 winner of the Center for the Study of the American West’s ...

A Denver guest's archive includes chapters from H.S. Kilbourne's memoir of experiences in the Indian territory; his pencil sketches of life on the Plains; and many evocative photographs by W.S. Soule.

At the National Museum of American Indian’s New York branch, ‘Unbound: Narrative Art of the Plains’ illustrates the storytelling power of warrior chiefs.

According to the legend, a woman appeared to a tribe of Plains Indians long ago, bearing a sacred pipe that would allow them to speak to the spirits. As she left, she turned into a white buffalo.

Dane Poolaw, 38, who is part of the Kiowa tribe in Oklahoma, demonstrates signs in Kiowa Sign Language, a dialect of Plains Indian Sign Language.

And pretty soon the Plains Indians, who numbered only 30,000, came to symbolize all Indians, and even America itself. How did that happen? It’s one of the craziest things.

Last Plains Indian war chief dies at age 102. ... BILLINGS, Mont.- Joseph Medicine Crow, an acclaimed Native American historian and the last surviving war chief of Montana's Crow Tribe, has died.