Soon Western newspapers and Western congressmen were demanding that Grant ... the most potent Indian power on the Great Plains. They had taken the territory from the Kiowas and the Crows, and ...

Treaties made with the Five Civilized Tribes following the American Civil War and subsequent treaties made with Western ... from them. Plains Indians began to realize that they were going to ...

As white explorers and settlers entered Western territory ... from their line. Plains Indians had watched as the Platte Valley turned into white America's highway. Now they were incensed by ...

The spread of horses on the Great Plains in 1680 onward gave tribes a new, highly efficient means of pursuing their prey. More Native Americans were also eking out a living from the fiercely ...

Plains Indians had limited contact with the white man before the mid-1800s. The Canadian west had already been mapped but there were only a ... intent on settling its western frontier.

During the winter of 1883-84, an estimated one in ten of the plains Indians died of malnutrition and disease. Near one reserve the bodies of more than 50 dead were strung up in trees, following ...