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 return of the bison means the return of the prairie, one of the three great grassland ecosystems on the planet.

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 ...

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 ...

Accrued wealth ushered in social stratification, and for the first time on the Plains there were rich Indians and poor Indians. Along with that novelty had come another: the acquisition of ...

“I know that he couldn’t have done anything better for the Native people than what he did.” A Fourth of July fireworks display explodes behind the Keeper of the Plains statue in downtown Wichit ...