The Tanka Fund has been working over the past decade to return buffalo to native ancestral lands helping to revitalize ...

NEW TOWN, N.D. (KFYR) - There’s a big change on Main Street in New Town. Great Plains Indian Trading moved into the Super Value Building. Great Plains Indian Trading is 100 percent Native ...

This event boded deep changes on the Great Plains ... and for the first time on the Plains there were rich Indians and poor Indians. Along with that novelty had come another: the acquisition ...

In the 19th century, over 250,000 Native Americans lived in the Great Plains -- between the Mississippi and Rocky Mountains. After the Civil War, however, the U.S. government began to increasingly ...

The Great Plains Tribal Chairman's Association and 22 others penned a letter to the White House on Feb. 2 expressing concern over a potential federal funding freeze.

The buffalo supplied the Plains Indians -- Blood, Sarcee, Peigan and Blackfoot among others - with almost everything they needed. Hides were dressed and made into clothing and stretched onto poles ...

Plains Indians had limited contact with the white ... profit and American military strategy. The great beast, which had sustained prairie tribes for hundreds of years, was disappearing.

Before 1860, few people moved west to try to settle on the Great Plains. The poor soil and harsh climate discouraged them - along with the fact that the Plains were officially Indian territory ...

The return of the bison means the return of the prairie, one of the three great grassland ecosystems on the planet.

Cody studies the archaeology of the western Great Plains and middle Rocky Mountains. His dissertation research focused on the early contact period and the development of Plains Indian equestrianism.