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Plains style Distribution of Indigenous peoples of the North American Plains Dramatizing the West Traditional performance George Catlin: Buffalo Hunt, Chase Clovis culture spear point Mandan: village Adapting traditional travel Buffalo on the Plains George Catlin: A Little Sioux Village
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Plains style
Dancers at the Totah Festival Powwow performing the Northern Tradition dance, a dance...
Lucas Ian Coshenet—The Daily Times/AP Images
Distribution of Indigenous peoples of the North American Plains
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Dramatizing the West
A poster advertises Buffalo Bill's Wild West show in 1899.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Traditional performance
A troupe of the Cheyenne River Sioux tribe in traditional dress, singing and dancing...
© Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Images
George Catlin: Buffalo Hunt, Chase
Buffalo Hunt, Chase, painting by George Catlin, 1844.
Yale University Art Gallery, Mabel Brady Garvan Collection (1946.9.572)
Clovis culture spear point
A chert spear point from the Clovis culture, dated about 9000 bce,...
Daderot
Mandan: village
A Mandan village on a bluff overlooking the Missouri River, aquatint by Karl Bodmer,...
Courtesy of OldBookArt.com
Adapting traditional travel
Blackfoot individuals with a horse-drawn travois. In earlier times the travois would...
Edward S. Curtis Collection/Library of Congress, Washinton, D.C. ( LC-USZ62-61937)
Buffalo on the Plains
American bison grazing on the grasslands of Ordway Prairie in the Prairie Pothole...
Tom Koerner/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
George Catlin: A Little Sioux Village
A Little Sioux Village, painting by George Catlin, 1861–69.
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Paul Mellon Collection, accession no. 1965.16.4
Mandan earth lodges
Reconstructed Mandan earth lodges in North Dakota.
Shawn Connell/North Dakota Tourism
Wichita grass lodge
Wichita grass lodge, photograph by Edward S. Curtis, c. 1927.
Edward S. Curtis Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-118773)
Hidatsa buffalo robe
Hidatsa buffalo robe characteristic of those exchanged during the fur trade, c. 1850.
Buffalo Bill Center Of The West/Shutterstock.com
Plains bullboats
Plains bullboats, in Mih-tutta-Hangkusch, a Mandan Village, one of a series...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Embroidered firebag
A popular item in the northern Plains, firebags were used to store tobacco and flint.
Minneapolis Institute of Art, The Patricia And Peter Frechette Endowment For Art Acquisition (accession no. 2016.72)
Skidi Pawnee chief Petalesharo
Skidi Pawnee chief Petalesharo, painting by Charles Bird King, 1822; in the Newberry...
The Newberry Library, Gift of Edward E. Ayer, 1911 (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Sahnish men
Members of the Sahnish Night Society dancing in a traditional ceremony, photograph...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-101185)
Blackfoot family
A Blackfoot family in front of a tepee.
SOTK2011/Alamy
Matrilineal kin system
Unilineal kin systems trace kin through either the female line or the male line....
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Tsuut'ina woman cooking
A Tsuut'ina woman preparing food in Alberta, Canada.
Edward S. Curtis Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (cph 3c01189)
Blackfoot child
A young dancer prepares to perform during the Banff Summer Arts Festival on July...
© Ronnie Chua/Shutterstock.com
Karl Bodmer: Dancer of the Hidatsa Dog Society
Dancer of the Hidatsa Dog Society, aquatint by Karl Bodmer, 1834.
Courtesy of the Rare Book Division, the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
Ornamental pipe
Inlaid pipe bowl with two faces, made with catlinite (pipestone) and lead, Sisseton...
Brooklyn Museum, New York, Henry L. Batterman Fund and the Frank Sherman Benson Fund, 50.67.104
Self-sacrifice during a Sun Dance
Original drawing by George Catlin depicting self-sacrifice during a Sun Dance, Plate...
From "Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians" by George Catlin, 1866.
Karl Bodmer: Travellers Meeting with Minatarre Indians near Fort Clark
Travellers Meeting with Minatarre Indians near Fort Clark, aquatint by Karl...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Depicting tragedy
A deer hide painting of the Sand Creek Massacre.
© Akademie/Alamy
Buffalo hunters curing hides and bones
Commercial buffalo hunters curing buffalo hides and bones, wood engraving by Paul...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-100250)
Peyote music
Antonio Woody, a Native singer and musician, seated behind a water drum and holding...
Photograph by Stephen Butler and courtesy Canyon Records
Red River Rebellion
The Red River Expedition at Kakabeka Falls (1877), painting by Frances Anne...
Public Archives of Canada, Art and Photography Division, Ottawa (Neg. No. c2775)
20th-century activism
Controversial Oglala Lakota activist Russell Means in 1989.
Bettmann/Getty Images
Earth lodge dwelling of the Plains tribes of North America, photograph by Edward...
Edward S. Curtis Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-114582)
Pawnee scouts
Pawnee Scouts, photograph by Frank North, c. 1869.
Library of Congress, Washington, D,C, (cph 3b13309)
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