Indians-Native Americans

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• Great Sioux Uprising of 1862 launched decades of Indian Wars: Indian Wars across Great Plains began in Minnesota in 1862.
• How Buffalo Bill Cody almost saved Sitting Bull’s life: Sitting Bull's friend Buffalo Bill sought to save the warrior's life.
• Which term to use — Indians or Native Americans?: Reasons our website refers to U.S. tribal people as Indians, not Native Americans.
• ‘Peace Chiefs of the Cheyennes’ — Get a copy of this book: Short but outstanding book highlights important Cheyenne leaders.
• Horses, gold prospectors altered Great Plains, historian says: Travelers, tribal groups going to the western gold fields reshaped Plains habitat.
• 1830s brought disease, death to Plains Indians: Disease outbreaks decimated entire tribal groups of Plains Indians.
• How did settlers identify distinct Indian tribal groups?: Were there distinctive clothing or distinctive physical characteristics of the various Indian tribes that made them easy to distinguish one [...]
• Indian Pidgin English shaped the Old West: Pidgin language created in American West to meet inter-tribal communication needs.
• Native American cultures, alliances were always diverse: Native American cultures were always very diverse, often fragmented into warring groups.
• Many Southwest tribal groups descended from Anasazi cliff dwellers: Name Anasazi comes from word meaning ancient ones, reflecting their long, mysterious history.
• Lakota are proud people; honored to have known some of them: Latoka, or Sioux, tribes dominated Northern Plains and Black Hills region of the Old West.
• Remembering four winters on the Rosebud Reservation — Brrrrrrrrrr!!: I live where winter just "kisses" the city most years, but I remember spending four winters on the Rosebud Reservation