Of the Northern Plains Indians, the Cheyenne and the Sioux were probably the most zealous in their protection of traditional tribal lands. Often, they acted in concert in resisting the incursions of ...

The Lakota leader Sitting Bull defeated George Custer’s cavalry, but a sustained conflict with American forces proved ruinous.

Wayne Carlson made his 14th Brush Sack Lunch Program presentation at the Brush History Museum on Friday afternoon. The retired Brush Middle School social studies teacher presented “Chaos Along the ...

Edmond author Stan Hoig knew little about American Indian culture during his boyhood years in the northwestern town of Gage. The Comanche and Kiowa Indians had migrated to what is now Oklahoma during ...

The plains Indians lived for untold centuries in the central part of the U.S. As settlers, trappers, traders and merchants began settling in the Indians' territory, conflicts between them began and ...

A new podcast series seeks to shed light on the legacy of the Plains Indian Wars on the American West.

NMAI copy purchased with funds from the Lloyd and Charlotte Wineland Library Endowment for Native American and Western Exploration Literature. From Lakota warrior Crazy Horse to legendary Geronimo of ...

The Ohio Valley War, 1786-1795 -- The Red Stick War, 1813-1814 -- The Arikara War, 1823 -- The Black Hawk War, 1832 -- The Minnesota Sioux War, 1862 -- The Cheyenne and Arapaho War, 1864-1865 -- The ...