The film discusses the life of American Indians before European settlement, highlighting their origins as Asian migrants who ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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.