“History is extremely important in my culture and because of that, it is extremely important to me. This trip helped broaden my knowledge of not only my tribe but lots of the surrounding tribes as well.”-Miah Chalfant In the fourteenth fall, the Plains Indian Museum hosted high school students, tribal elders, and instructors from St. Labre Indian […]
BOOK NEWS FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: “Plains Indian Buffalo Cultures: Art from the Paul Dyck Collection” by Emma I. Hansen. Emma I. Hansen will sign copies of her highly anticipated book on Thursday, June 14 from 4–6 PM at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Copies are available for purchase on-site at the museum store, […]
St. Labre school visit to the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in April 2016. For the eleventh year, the Plains Indian Museum hosted students, elders, teachers, and administrator from the St. Labre Indian School in Ashland, Montana. Their experience is part of a collaborative program between St. Labre and the Buffalo Bill Center of the West. Four students—Shamon Flatmouth, […]
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Fall 2009 Arapaho Ghost Dance dress, ca. 1890 In March 2007, the first Plains Indian Museum “Treasure” in Points West was a Ghost Dance dress. As the story went, Plains Indian people faced poverty, disease, and death on reservations by the late nineteenth century. Led by the Paiute visionary Wovoka, […]
Originally published in Points West in Fall 1994 By Emma I. Hansen Curator Emerita, Plains Indian Museum The introduction of the horse in the southwest had effects on the ways of life of the Apache and Comanche people of that region. During the 1700s as people of the northern plains and plateau acquired horses through […]
