Native American voices and perspectives, speaking through art, all feature an immensely important creature in the lives of the Dakhóta, Nakhóta and Lakȟóta — the horse — in an exhibit ...

techniques he uses in his animal-focused work. A Native American from the Yurok and Pomo nations, he had his first solo show, “Trust the Spirits,” this fall at Novato’s Museum of the ...

His son Joseph Horse Capture is a museum curator specializing in Native American art. This month, he is leaving the Minneapolis Institute of Arts for the National Museum of the American Indian.

SOUTH DAKOTA (CBSNewYork) -- A monument honoring native American legend Crazy Horse is slowly taking shape high above the Black Hills of South Dakota. For nearly 70 years, crews have been blasting ...

Many Native Americans were named for animals; two famous examples being Chief Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. The Native American connection did not end with names; they believed in spirit animals.

To tell the stories of horses in the West, the team closely examined about two dozen sets of animal remains found at sites ranging from New Mexico to Kansas and Idaho. The researchers come from 15 ...

But nowhere was it celebrated more vigorously or joyfully than at Crazy Horse Memorial ... is bound up in Native American Day that history going back 25 years.” Native art and culture and ...

The original video can be viewed here. The horse has played a central role in the history and mythology of many Native American tribes. The Shoshone, Crow, Blackfeet, Sioux, and other tribes first ...

Toulouse (France) (AFP) – Native ... of horse remains using radiocarbon dating, DNA sequencing and other tools to demonstrate that the animals had spread widely across the American West in ...

New research suggests Native Americans used horses of European descent long before colonizers arrived in the American West. Joe Sohm / Visions of America / Universal Images Group via Getty Images ...