“Before we get too old, we want to make a run and see if we can at least put our tribe on the map and show that we got some bona fide hoopers in Indian ... (Lords of the Plains),” said Liotta ...

Fourth in a series on the Texas Triangles. The Texas Panhandle is rich and complex, shaped by Native American cultures, ...

According to NMAI curator Ann McMullen, these quilts—many bearing a central octagonal star—functioned as both ritual and practical replacements for Plains Indians buffalo robes. Bison hides ...

U.S. Army Lt. John W. Gunnison, then working on a survey of the Great Lakes, wrote a letter to his Mormon friend, Albert ...

The Great Plains were witness to some of the most intense and violent encounters between settlers and Native American tribes. Here are three infamous wagon train raids that reveal the brutal clashes d ...

There was one problem: The Black Hills belonged to the Lakota Indians, the most potent Indian power on the Great Plains. They had taken the territory from the Kiowas and the Crows, and they had ...

The latest count: the Northern Arapaho tribe have 97 and the Eastern Shoshone ... Baldes argues buffalo should be able to roam on the plains to bolster biodiversity and restore ecological health ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Thousands of people are gathering in New Mexico for a celebration showcasing Native American ... land from tribes throughout the Northern and Southern Plains.

Its origins are rooted in the practice of people in the Great Plains painting on bison and ... an enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe. “Wanting to communicate the contemporary ...

Violent conflicts with Plains Indians increased sharply around the middle of the 19th century, as white settlers traveled deep into Indian Country, threatening the territories and natural ...

Have you ever gazed at a woven basket, a painted rock, or a beaded garment and felt a strange sense of harmony—like the ...