The world of Plains Indians and of other American Indians in the West had existed for several centuries. The eighteenth century, in particular, represents the West as we think about it before the ...

For the immediate future, however, the army did nothing. Westward progress would suffice to force Native Americans from the Plains. Incidents Along the Railroad The railroad certainly received its ...

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 ...

But there are also, though fewer, things of a darker mien, artifacts revealing caliginous corners of American history ... Not uncommonly, Plains Indians also made beautifully decorated, cow ...

ET / 11:00 am CT / 10:00 am MT / 9:00 am PT For more than a decade, photographer Shane Balkowitsch has been capturing the ...

In Morning Star Quilts, Pulford’s 1989 survey of quilting traditions among Native American women of the Northern Plains, she tells of a letter she got from Jackson that described a single month ...

White Americans won the West because everything was on their side. The Native Americans fought bravely, but the odds were completely against them.

Plains Indians had limited contact with the white ... in Canada and the United States were killed for sport, profit and American military strategy. The great beast, which had sustained prairie ...

The negative aspects of the horse revolution have passed into history, but horses remain vastly important to many Native Americans, especially the Plains tribes, as objects of pride, as tokens of ...

Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) offers an undergraduate major, undergraduate minor, and a graduate minor. This interdisciplinary course of study examine the cultural, social, economic, ...

The Texas Panhandle is rich and complex, shaped by Native American cultures, Spanish explorers, frontier settlers, ranchers and the development of railroads and the oil industry. It has been inhabited ...