The world of Plains Indians and of other ... enormous power of Nature! What kept Native Americans so faithful to the land? The natural environment of the Great West provided life to American ...

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 ...

The spread of horses on the Great Plains in 1680 onward gave tribes a new, highly efficient means of pursuing their prey. More Native Americans were also eking out a living from the fiercely ...

Early European explorers found the Plains a very hostile environment, and the area was marked on early maps as the 'great American desert'. One American explorer, Major Stephen Long, declared ...

The past abundance of bison on the Great Plains is well documented, but bison were also common throughout the Rocky Mountains. They seem to have been extirpated by Native Americans from the northern ...

The world of Plains Indians and of other ... enormous power of Nature! What kept Native Americans so faithful to the land? The natural environment of the Great West provided life to American ...