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

Of the Northern Plains Indians, the Cheyenne and the Sioux were probably the most zealous in their protection of traditional tribal lands. Often, they acted in concert in resisting the incursions of ...

The plains Indians lived for untold centuries in the central part of the U.S. As settlers, trappers, traders and merchants began settling in the Indians' territory, conflicts between them began and ...

A new podcast series seeks to shed light on the legacy of the Plains Indian Wars on the American West.