Sensing trouble on the Plains, a group of New York pastors ... be given an impossibly short deadline to report to the reservation; the Indian Bureau was to manufacture complaints against them ...

The enforced reservation system meant native ... red tape into something at least suggesting the sacred. Not uncommonly, Plains Indians also made beautifully decorated, cow-leather pouches ...

although such agreements first identified plains groups with certain lands with the second phase creating Indian reservations throughout the West. In all, there are 389 ratified U.S.-Indian ...

although such agreements first identified plains groups with certain lands with the second phase creating Indian reservations throughout the West. In all, there are 389 ratified U.S.-Indian ...