For generations, Native Americans prized dentalium or tusk shells as currency, status symbols and sacred objects. Harvested in the Pacific, they were traded thousands of miles inland, held real value ...

Imagine a sea of shaggy, brown giants stretching to every horizon, their thundering hooves shaking the earth beneath your ...

The world of Plains Indians and of other American ... It is unlikely that the American buffalo will regain its once great herds. It has become evident that the population of the bison has ...

Almira Buffalo Bone ... collections of a Native American art form that is hardly known at all: the quilt. Eighty-eight quilts—stitched by women from the Northern Plains tribes from the 1940s ...

By 1900, the American buffalo teetered on the brink of disappearing forever, and Native people of the Plains entered one ... tribes at the destruction of the great herds, while crusading ...

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division This Winter, if all goes as planned, a caravan of livestock trucks will carry dozens of American ... the Great Plains and the Plains Indians ...

At Poplar Middle School, students are documenting and preserving Native American traditions through an innovative educational ...

Plains Indians had limited ... millions of plains buffalo in Canada and the United States were killed for sport, profit and American military strategy. The great beast, which had sustained prairie ...