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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 January 2025. Native Americans/First Nations peoples of the Great Plains of North America "Indigenous peoples of the Plains" redirects here. Not to be confused with Plains Indigenous peoples of Taiwan. "Buffalo culture" redirects here. For the culture of Buffalo, New York, see Buffalo, New York ...
Plains Indians Native American tribes — the indigenous peoples of North America from the Great Plains region, in central Canada and the United States. Subcategories This category has the following 26 subcategories, out of 26 total.
The most famous victory ever won by Plains Indians over the United States, the Battle of Little Bighorn, in 1876, was won by the Lakota (Sioux) and Cheyenne fighting on the defensive. [5]: 20 Although they could be tenacious in defense, Plains Native American warriors took the offensive mostly for material gain and individual prestige.
Typical of the Plains Indians during the horse culture era, the Kiowa were a warrior people. They fought frequently with enemies, both neighboring and far beyond their territory. The Kiowa were notable for their long-distance raids extending south into Mexico and north onto the Northern Plains. Almost all warfare took place on horseback.
The railroad companies hired hunters to exterminate the bison herds, the Plains Indians' primary food supply. The Dakota and Lakota were forced to accept US-defined reservations in exchange for the rest of their lands and farming and ranching of domestic cattle, as opposed to a nomadic, hunting economy.
The Indian Heritage of America: 1968 Knopf (American Heritage Books) Comprehensive overview of Indigenous Peoples of the Western Hemisphere The Artist Was A Young Man: 1970 Amon Carter Museum Peter Rindisbacher, first artist of the Plains Indians, early 1820s Black Hills, White Sky: 1978 New York Times Books
A Mexican Indian named Jusepe Gutierrez, from Culiacan, Mexico, guided Oñate. Jusepe was a survivor of the Leyva and Humana expedition. [1] Accompanied by Jusepe, more than 70 Spanish soldiers and priests, an unknown number of Indigenous soldiers and servants, and 700 horses and mules, Oñate journeyed across the plains eastward from New Mexico.
It is their everyday life. The Contraries of the Plains Indians are unique and historically unprecedented. John Plant examined the ethnological phenomena of contrary behavior, particularly in the tribes of the North American Plains Indians. [1]: 15 Contrary behavior means deliberately doing the opposite of what others routinely or conventionally do