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.

And Philbrick, in one of his most elegant turns of phrase, points out that the Little Bighorn battle was as much a "last stand" for the plains Indians as it was for Custer.

Between 1860 and 1900, the U.S. government forced Plains Indians onto reservations. Schools opened up with an insidious doctrine: children had to wear American garb and speak English.