Plains Indians have long occupied a special place in the American imagination. Both the historical reality of such evocative figures and events as Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, Sacajewea, and the Battle of Little Bighorn and the lived reality of Native Americans today are often confused and conflated with popular representations of Indians in movies, paintings, novels, and on television. Ingrained stereotypes and cultural misconceptions born of late...

Tells the traditional stories and describes the lifeways of some of the first peoples of the Plains: the Pawnee, Sioux, Hidatsa, Manda, Arikara, and Omaha Indians. Through these stories, we learn of the essential ties native peoples have to the land that gave them life.

Photographs and artwork look at the first Indians and various tribes throughout America, concentrating on the traditional way of life of the Indians of the Great Plains. Includes related craft ideas.

Depicts the historical background, social organization, and daily life of a Plains Indian village in 1868, presenting interiors, landscapes, clothing, and everyday objects.

Standing Bear told his own story as well as that of his people, the Lakota Indians.