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.

In the 19th century, over 250,000 Native Americans lived in the Great Plains -- between the Mississippi and Rocky Mountains. After the Civil War, however, the U.S. government began to increasingly ...

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This event boded deep changes on the Great Plains ... and for the first time on the Plains there were rich Indians and poor Indians. Along with that novelty had come another: the acquisition ...

According to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, bison once roamed the Great Plains in the millions before nearly being driven to extinction. Now — thanks to 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 ...

They were an integral part of Native American societies that lived on the Great Plains providing food as well as the raw materials for clothing, shelter and more. However, a program of mass ...

Plains Indians had limited contact with the white ... profit and American military strategy. The great beast, which had sustained prairie tribes for hundreds of years, was disappearing.

The Great Plains are the grasslands of the North American continent, and lie between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Early European explorers found the Plains a very hostile ...