The spread of horses on the Great Plains in 1680 onward gave tribes a new, highly efficient means of pursuing their prey. More Native Americans were also eking out a living from the fiercely ...

White Americans won the West because everything was on their side. The Native Americans fought bravely, but the odds were completely against them.

A tornado, too! So, these things are much greater than a human being and Plains Indian people felt this — the enormous power of Nature! What kept Native Americans so faithful to the land?

The past abundance of bison on the Great Plains is well documented, but bison were also common throughout the Rocky Mountains. They seem to have been extirpated by Native Americans from the northern ...