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 ...

The U.S. Government began to make treaties with the Plains Indians during the 1850s to 1871 when a Congressional act halted the process of treaty-making with Indian nations.

This is one of several buffalo robes displayed in the “Plains Indians” exhibit at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The exhibit runs from Sept. 19 through Jan. 11, 2015, then on to New York’s ...

All of the Plains Indians, once they got the horse from the Spanish, buffalo hunting became easier for them. It was their way of life. The buffalo hunting began as a simple market exercise.

Indians were given flour, beans, sugar, clothing, blankets and bugles and were moved into Indian Territory. “The treaties were signed but ineffective,” Oliva said.

The average adult male Plains Indian stood 172.6 centimeters tall -- about 5 feet 8 inches. The next tallest people in the world at that time were Australian men, who averaged 172 centimeters.

During the 1800s the Native Indian tribes of the American Plains stood tall, literally. According to a recent study published in The American Economic Review, they were then the tallest people in ...