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The Newberry is home to one of the strongest collections of Native American archival materials ... rooted in the practice of people in the Great Plains painting on bison and other animal hides ...
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3 Wagon Train Raids of the Great Plains...
The Great Plains were witness to some of the most intense and violent encounters between settlers and Native American tribes.
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 ...
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 ...
Powwows — where tribes across the US and Canada gather to celebrate Native American dance, song, food and craftsmanship — began in the Great Plains in ... on the map, at least.” ...
Karen Russell's latest fiction novel, “The Antidote,” arises from the dust of the Great Depression and is set in the Great ...
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a nonprofit organization defending civil liberties, argues that law enforcement use of ...
Such killings are rare in Colorado, but the state should protect the species because of its importance to Coloradans and Native ... Great Plains and the West until the arrival of European American ...
Some players flew 3,000 miles to Spokane and others drove from around the corner. Some are fresh out of high school and ...
In the Great Plains, tribal leaders are able to fund care for substance abuse—a problem that Native Americans have historically faced—and food assistance programs. HHS recently issued a memo ...