Plains indians

My Grandfather, John Henry Jamison was the son of John and Hanna Jane Jamison. He was born in Rye Colorado. He came to Kansas in 1907. On June 4, 1908, he married my grandmother, Lettie Mae Smith. Seven children came to this union. My father, Charles, was the youngest. They settled in Kinsley, Kansas He was a...

The war club: There are many types of clubs, hatchets, and tomahawks used across the Americas. On the Plains, we developed a particular style of stone club

Today we learned about the different tribes with special attention giving to the Plains Indians for the time being. We also learned about the many buffalo uses and the ways the buffalo were hunted. We had a lot of fun completing the activities and doing crafts. Click each day to see what we have been doing with our unit. Day 1 Day 2 Day 3 Day 4 Day 5 Day 6 Day 7 Day 8 Where the Native Americans Lived - I love this site and it has a great visual on the cultural groups based upon geography…

This picture represents the misconceptions that people have against Native Americans. The Indian Killer scalps their victims and, because of this, the public believes them to be Native American. But, as Marie Polatkin points out, the French were the ones who brought scalping to the United States and so the Indian Killer doesn’t necessarily have to be Indian. Because of the stereotype surrounding scalping, people only come to one conclusion, regardless of how little evidence they really have.

Today for Indigenous heritage month I wanted to write about Ptecincala Ska Wakan Winan, commonly called White Buffalo Calf Woman, a sacred woman in Lakota spirituality. During a time of famine, a L…

Lakota woman’s dress (Teton Sioux), 1865. Leather, tiny Venetian glass seed beads, and tin cones. From the Smithsonian’s Museum of the American Indian Installation view of “The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky” March 9 - May 10, 2015 Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, New York

The Crow are one of the more interesting yet lesser-known tribes of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains. This is the untold truth of the Crow Tribe.

Art of Chris Bezold-Plains Indian Reproductions: October 2011

Native American Studies Mini Lesson & Craft: Plains Indian Teepee

View Rifle and Lance By Lang Steven; oil on canvas; 20 x 16 inches ; Signed; Edition. Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.