Edmond author Stan Hoig knew little about American Indian culture during his boyhood years in the northwestern town of Gage. The Comanche and Kiowa Indians had migrated to what is now Oklahoma during ...

The Lakota leader Sitting Bull defeated George Custer’s cavalry, but a sustained conflict with American forces proved ruinous ...

In South Dakota, which has seen several of its young men and women go off to serve as war artists from World War I on, the Plains Indian artist tradition of depicting battle supplies the native ...

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War on the plains -- Paper peace -- First blood -- Sitting Bull and bear ribs -- White man's war -- Kit Carson takes a hand -- Sand Creek -- Powder River -- The Fort Phil Kearney Massacre -- Hancock ...

Settlement of the Great Plains was generally quite peaceful — outside of continuing wars and Indian-European conflicts in Texas. Real settlement started after the Civil War, and although the Plains ...

Here's an interesting book by an Oklahoma author about the Plains Indian Wars (north and south) that also is a tour guide for those who would like to visit some of the places that saw the action -- ...

In this interview, Donald Fixico, Thomas Bowlus Distinguished Professor of American Indian History and Director of the Center for Indigenous Nations Studies at the University of Kansas, talks about ...

The “Fall into Winter Author Series” returns to the Fort Morgan Public Library and Museum at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 17, according to a city news release. This first of five presentations by ...