A funny thing happened on the way to the disappearance of the Indians of the North American Plains. Citizens and officials in both the United States and Canada agreed, of course, that the natives were ...

In 1935, at the age of 16, David Humphreys Miller (1918-1992) arrived in South Dakota and began interviewing and drawing the Northern Plains Indians who were at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Over ...

Detail of “Ghost Dance Dress,” Southern Arapaho artist, Oklahoma (ca. 1890), native tanned leather, pigment, metal cones, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (all images courtesy ...

CODY, Wyo. (AP) - The Buffalo Bill Historical Center has acquired a private collection of Plains Indian artifacts that could be valued at more than $22.5 million. The collection belonged to the late ...

The Plains Indians & Pioneers Museum has announced a slate of public programs and exhibitions scheduled for February and ...

Much of our knowledge of the ethnology, material culture, and prehistory of the Plains of the United States can be linked with the careers and careful research of the Smithsonian's John C. Ewers and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — American Indian leaders asked Congress on Tuesday for millions of dollars in new spending for roads, schools and housing as well as for money to lure oil and gas companies to ...

KEARNEY — Nancy Gillis, the former executive director of the John Neihardt State Historic Site in Bancroft, will examine why and how the Homestead Act of 1862 changed the lives and altered the future ...

A century of Plains Indian art studies -- Plains Indian painting : the history and development of an American art form -- Images of the white man in nineteenth-century Plains Indian art -- The ...

CASPER - Buffalo wasn't just for dinner for the Plains Indians. It's what killed dinner, cooked dinner and served dinner. The buffalo was, in effect, a one-stop shop that housed, clothed, fed and ...