The film discusses the life of American Indians before European settlement, highlighting their origins as Asian migrants who arrived in America around 30,000 years ago. It describes the diverse ...

According to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, bison once roamed the Great Plains in the ...

In the 19th century, over 250,000 Native Americans lived in the Great Plains -- between the Mississippi and Rocky Mountains. After the Civil War, however, the U.S. government began to increasingly ...

They were an integral part of Native American societies that lived on the Great Plains providing food as well as the raw materials for clothing, shelter and more. However, a program of mass ...

This event boded deep changes on the Great Plains ... and for the first time on the Plains there were rich Indians and poor Indians. Along with that novelty had come another: the acquisition ...

Before 1860, few people moved west to try to settle on the Great Plains. The poor soil and harsh climate discouraged them - along with the fact that the Plains were officially Indian territory ...

The return of the bison means the return of the prairie, one of the three great grassland ecosystems on the planet.

The Great Plains are the grasslands of the North American continent, and lie between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Early European explorers found the Plains a very hostile ...