Detail of “Ghost Dance Dress,” Southern Arapaho artist, Oklahoma (ca. 1890), native tanned leather, pigment, metal cones, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (all images courtesy ...

KEARNEY — Nancy Gillis, the former executive director of the John Neihardt State Historic Site in Bancroft, will examine why and how the Homestead Act of 1862 changed the lives and altered the future ...

CODY, Wyo. (AP) - The Buffalo Bill Historical Center has acquired a private collection of Plains Indian artifacts that could be valued at more than $22.5 million. The collection belonged to the late ...

In 1935, at the age of 16, David Humphreys Miller (1918-1992) arrived in South Dakota and began interviewing and drawing the Northern Plains Indians who were at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Over ...

In 1986, the year before his death, Andy Warhol continued his appropriation of classic American icons and images with his Cowboys and Indians series, a portfolio of ten graphic screenprints ...

A century of Plains Indian art studies -- Plains Indian painting : the history and development of an American art form -- Images of the white man in nineteenth-century Plains Indian art -- The ...

RIVERTON — When Dr. Vonda Wells was traveling in Canada last summer, she met an older gentleman who asked her where she was from. When she answered, he raised his hands and made a sign; Wells didn’t ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Plains Indians & Pioneers Museum has announced a slate of public programs and exhibitions scheduled for February and March, ...

Much of our knowledge of the ethnology, material culture, and prehistory of the Plains of the United States can be linked with the careers and careful research of the Smithsonian's John C. Ewers and ...

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