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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The film discusses the life of American Indians before European settlement, highlighting their origins as Asian migrants who arrived in America around 30,000 years ago. It describes the diverse ...

The poor soil and harsh climate discouraged them - along with the fact that the Plains were officially Indian territory - land was expensive to buy, and anybody wanting to go west faced a long ...