Not only was this beast their "Walmart," in a sense it was their church. The lives of the Plains tribes, including the Cheyenne, Kiowa, Comanche and Arapaho, revolved around the bison, or buffalo.
Steven Rinella’s fascination with buffalo began in the late 1990s when he unearthed a buffalo skull while hiking in the Madison Range in southwest Montana. A Michigan native who grew up hunting deer ...
NMAI copy purchased with funds from the S. Dillon Ripley Endowment. Over the course of his career, artist Paul Dyck (1917-2006) assembled more than 2,000 nineteenth-century artworks created by the ...
CASPER - Buffalo wasn't just for dinner for the Plains Indians. It's what killed dinner, cooked dinner and served dinner. The buffalo was, in effect, a one-stop shop that housed, clothed, fed and ...
In the spring of 1805, Meriwether Lewis, chronicler for the Lewis and Clark expedition, climbed to the top of a bluff and beheld a treeless expanse "exposing to the first glance of the spectator ...
The Plains Indians were a people in a hurry. Mounted on horseback, they hunted migrating buffalo from the Mississippi to the Rockies. Yet their need for speed didn't stop them from making art. In fact ...
In this interview, Donald Fixico, Thomas Bowlus Distinguished Professor of American Indian History and Director of the Center for Indigenous Nations Studies at the University of Kansas, talks about ...
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