History
Navajo Weaving
Even the most casual tourist who travels through the Navajo lands of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah cannot help but notice the abundance of […]
History
Assimilation in 1920
By the late nineteenth century, all Americans, except for American Indians, knew for a fact that all Indian tribes would be extinct in the twentieth […]
Smoke Signals and Mirrors
A number of different Indian cultures used long-distance signaling systems in war and in hunting. The most stereotyped of these is the use of smoke-signals. […]
Plains Indian Sign Language
During the 18th and 19th centuries, the world of the American Indians who inhabited the Great Plains changed greatly. The first, and perhaps most significant, […]
Cultures in Contact on the Northern Plains
In the late 1700s, Europeans began to arrive on the Northern Plains in Alberta, Canada and their arrival brought a century of great cultural change […]
Napi’s World
Traditionally, the Indian nations of the Northern Plains, such as the Blackfoot, were egalitarian. Within Blackfoot society, there were no individuals, no groups of people, […]
Ancient America: The Buffalo Hunt
At the beginning of the European invasion of North America, there may have been as many as 75 million buffalo on the Great Plains. For […]
Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump Interpretive Centre
There are probably thousands of buffalo jumps scattered across the Northern Plains. The Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, is one of the […]
Niitsitapi, the Blackfoot People
Niitsítapi, the Blackfoot people, have a long and rich history on the Northern Plains. According to tribal elders, the people have always lived on the […]
Ancient America: Eating a Buffalo
For the Plains Indians, for many thousands of years, the buffalo (more properly called bison) was a walking supermarket providing them with food, clothing, shelter, […]