This enormous area of the Great Plains, Southwest, Pacific Northwest, and Basin area represented the homelands of many Indian communities. At least 28 tribes might be called Plains Indians.

Funding for Indian Health Service, the agency that provides Native Americans with medical care, is under threat.

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 ...

“But it also became a war of conquest to destroy and dispossess Native Americans.” Sand Creek, he adds, “is a bloody and mostly forgotten link” between the Civil War and the Plains Indian ...

Until the ghost dance generation—the one that kissed the old life goodbye to face an enemy future—the tribes that dominated ... the appropriation of Indian lands west of the Missouri by ...

In exchange for furs, traders introduced the Plains Indians to a potent, highly addictive form of whiskey. Soon, alcoholism became a major problem among the tribes. But the most destructive blow ...

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 ...

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 ...

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