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 ...

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 ...

Plains is a town of around 500 people - which included former president Jimmy Carter for much of his life. Biden, in farewell address, warns about dangers of unchecked power in ultra-wealthy 8 out ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scotch Plains natives Melody DeGaetano and Ryan Hampton opened the eatery in February 2024, naming the restaurant to honor her late mother. But it was DeGaetano’s time living in Manhattan that i ...

“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 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – The Public Safety Commission (PSC) announced the new Director of the Texas Department of Public Safety is current Senior Deputy Director Freeman Martin. Martin’s appointment ...