Plains Indians or Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies are the Native American tribes and First Nation band governments who have...
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Indians encountered, a policy which in short time ignited a general war on the Colorado and Kansas plains, the Colorado War. Raids by bands of plains...
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warfare in Plains Indian culture. First, was the Spanish colonization of New Mexico which stimulated raids and counter-raids by Spaniards and Indians for goods...
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Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk or Plains Sign Language, is an endangered language common to various Plains Nations across...
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The Great Plains, sometimes simply "the Plains", is a broad expanse of flatland in North America. It is located just to the east of the Rocky Mountains...
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Buffalo Bill Center of the West (redirect from Plains Indians Museum)
Cody, Wyoming. The five museums include the Buffalo Bill Museum, the Plains Indians Museum, the Whitney Western Art Museum, the Draper Natural History Museum...
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Texas–Indian wars were a series of conflicts between settlers in Texas and the Southern Plains Indians during the 19th-century. Conflict between the Plains...
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many Southern Plains tribes adopted the horse culture and became nomadic. The tipi, an animal hide lodge, was used by Plains Indians as a dwelling because...
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War bonnet (redirect from Indian bonnet)
feathered headgear traditionally worn by male leaders of the American Plains Indians Nations who have earned a place of great respect in their tribe. Originally...
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Doab; the Rohilkhand (Katehr) Plains; the Awadh Plains; the Purvanchal Plains; the Bihar Plains; the North Bengal plains; the Ganges Delta in India and...
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Sappony (redirect from High Plains Indians)
Desiderio, executive director. Haliwa-Saponi Indian Tribe Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation "High Plains Indians". Cause IQ. Retrieved 4 February 2022. "State...
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or living in the Indian subcontinent Bombay East Indians, a Christian community in India British Indians, British people of Indian origin Indo-Canadians...
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"the Plains", in America and Canada Plains, Georgia Plains, Kansas Plains, Michigan Plains, Montana Plains Airport Plains, Pennsylvania Plains, Texas...
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Kiowa (redirect from Kiowa Indians)
and the Plains Apache to fight invading white settlers and U.S. soldiers, as well as Mexicans and the Mexican Army. Like other Plains Indians, the Kiowa...
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Midwestern United States (redirect from Plains States)
Army have made the Plains Indians archetypical in literature and art for American Indians everywhere.[citation needed] Plains Indians are usually divided...
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Crow people (redirect from Crow Indians)
Montana, with an Indian reservation, the Crow Indian Reservation, located in the south-central part of the state. Crow Indians are a Plains tribe, who speak...
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Mardi Gras Indians (also known as Black Masking Indians) are African American carnival revelers in New Orleans, Louisiana, who dress up for Mardi Gras...
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Indigenous peoples of the Eastern Woodlands (redirect from Woodland Indians)
Great Plains, and from the Great Lakes region to the Gulf of Mexico, which is now part of the Eastern United States and Canada. The Plains Indians culture...
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to the economy and society of the Plains Indians peoples who inhabited the vast grasslands on the Interior Plains of North America, before the animal's...
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Contrary (social role) (category Indigenous culture of the Great Plains)
are related, in part, to the clown organizations of the Plains Indians, as well as to Plains military societies that contained reverse warriors.: 2 The...
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Cheyenne (redirect from Cheyenne Indians)
Mitchell, US Superintendent of Indian Affairs, with the Indians of the northern plains. To reduce intertribal warfare on the Plains, the government officials...
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Indigenous music of North America (redirect from Plains Indian music)
characteristic of the Plains tribes, and solo end-blown flutes (flageolet) are also common. Nettl describes the central Plains Indians, from Canada to Texas:...
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eleven years later, and deals with the increasing conflict between the Plains Indians and the white man, with tragic outcomes. "Dances with Wolves". South...
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Ute people (redirect from Ute Indians)
present Indian Reservations in Utah Territory, and to settle the Indians of said Territory in the Uinta Valley", unilaterally removing all Indians in the...
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Arikara (redirect from Ree Indians)
transportation in the centuries before the Plains tribes adopted the use of horses in the 1600s. Many of the Plains tribes had used the travois, a lightweight...
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Apache (redirect from Apache indians)
'travois' travel on the northern plains", Plains Anthropologist, 39, 145–59. Hodge, F. W. (Ed.). (1907). Handbook of American Indians. Washington. Hoijer, Harry...
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Counting coup (category Indigenous culture of the Great Plains)
Look up count coup in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Among the Plains Indians of North America, counting coup (/kuː/) is the warrior tradition of winning...
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Arapaho (redirect from Arapaho indians)
victory for the Indians, with 29 soldiers killed and at least eight Indian casualties. Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche, Kiowa, and Plains Apaches seeking...
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with the local Indians who were subject to the Comanches, and historians conjecture that he believed those treaties would bind all Indians and that his...
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Blackbear Bosin (section Keeper of the Plains)
variations on the traditional "flat" style painting of the Southern Plains Indians — adding depth, motion and drama to the genre, while emphasizing symbolism...
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