Indian Education for All Resources
K-12 School Resources: Indian Education for All
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West offers many K–12 programs and resources to help teachers and students meet Montana and Wyoming’s Indian Education for All Social Studies Standards.
2025-2026 Indian Education for All Professional Development Schedule
Professional Development Registration
👇Click the image below to register for the most current online training modules for educators 👇
IEFA Online K-12 PD: | Tuesdays 4-6:30 pm
Credits: 1.5 Wyoming PTSB credits or 21 Montana OPI hours
Cost: $40 (Includes book resources mailed upon completion)
Dates: 10/14/25 • 10/28/25 • 11/11/25 • 11/18/25 • 12/2/25 • 12/16/25 • 1/6/26 • 1/20/26 • 2/3/26 • 2/17/26
Online Content Intensives: | Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday from 4-6:30 pm
Credits: .5 Wyoming PTSB credit or 7 Montana OPI hours
Cost: $25 (Includes book resources mailed upon completion)
Field Trips: On-Site & Virtual
The Center offers various Plains Indian culture and history focused programming, both as onsite guided experiences and as live virtual field trips. All experiences are aligned to Montana and Wyoming’s Indian Education for All Social Studies Standards. Visit the links below for more information or to register for these immersive and interactive experiences for your students.
Visit the Center on a field trip and schedule Plains Indian culture and history guided experience.
Is it too far to visit us in person? We offer several FREE, live, interactive virtual field trips about Plains Indian Cultures.
Additional Classroom Resources
Plains Indian Art Trunk
This trunk helps to foster an understanding and appreciation for the culture of Plains Indian people. Materials in the trunk include examples of traditional Plains Indian arts such as: bead work; quill work; and painted objects. A teacher’s guide and curriculum are enclosed.
Weight: 51 lbs. Size: 30 x 15 x 15 inches
Powwow Trunk
Music and dance have long been central to American Indian cultures. Today’s powwow is a celebration of that heritage. Learn about powwows in their present form and the history behind them with a video, dance outfits, musical instruments, accessories, a teacher’s guide, and curriculum.
Weight: 56 lbs. Size: 32.5 x 20.5 x 19 inches
Plains Indian Map Project
This Plains Indian Map—created with generous funding from The Brown Foundation, Inc., of Houston—is a fusion of scholarship and educational interpretation. The map represents 230 years of movement on the Plains amongst more than 45 different Indian cultures. Territorial, treaty, reservation, and state boundaries flow in an animated timeline. We recommended this map for a broad audience, including K–12 teachers and students. Viewers can pause the online animation at any point to study a particular map.
McCracken Research Library
The Center’s McCracken Research Library has extensive primary resources, including photographs of Plains Indian history and culture. The library also offers specialized research for middle and high school groups.
Educational Videos
Plains Indian Museum
The Plains Indian Museum tells the significant story of the lives of Plains Indian peoples, their cultures, traditions, values, and histories, as well as the contexts of their lives today.
In the words of Plains Indian Museum Advisory Board member and Crow tribal historian Dr. Joseph Medicine Crow, the Museum is “a living, breathing place where more than just Indian objects are on display.” Since 1979 the museum has been a leader in promoting public recognition of the importance of Plains Indian art due to its nationally significant collection.
Paul Dyck Plains Indian Buffalo Culture Collection
The 2,000 piece collection consists of objects dating from the late 1700s to 1890s. With many individual pieces of exceptional artistry and historic significance, the collection as a whole includes works from every Plains tribe.
The Paul Dyck Collection includes objects associated with individuals of national significance in American cultural history including leaders such as Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce; great Lakota leaders Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse; the last recognized chief of the Crow nation, Plenty Coups; Mountain Chief, leader of the Blackfeet; and historic explorers, Lewis and Clark. Other collection materials are associated with significant historical events including firearms and other weapons used at the Battle of Little Bighorn and objects associated with Curly and White Swan of the Crow 7th Cavalry scouts at the battle.
To view information on the various tribes represented in the collection, visit the following links:
Researching Plains Indian Tribes
For more information about some of the Plains Indian tribes in our region, please follow these links: