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, […]
The Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s summer programming is well under way with artist Seidel Standing Elk stationed as artist-in-residence, daily August 10–13. “My art is a diversity of reflections of the values, visions, dreams, and stories told to me by my family, relatives, and elders of the Cheyenne,” Standing Elk notes. Each day, […]
Originally featured in Points West magazine in Summer 2016 Buffalo Bill’s Wild West “Cowboys & Indians” poster Buffalo Bill’s Wild West effectively marketed its appearances through bright, colorful posters depicting dramatic, exciting adventures that occurred in the American West. This early poster, circa 1887, depicts a rare encounter between cowboys and Indians. In 1866, Nelson […]
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 […]
On Thursday, March 27, 2014, the Buffalo Bill Center of the West welcomed six freshman students from the St. Labre Indian School in Ashland, Montana. The students (Taibree Bearchum, Kennington Medicine Bull, Sharlyce Parker, Joleigh Old Elk, and Teanna Braine) explored beadwork in the Plains Indian Museum vaults and galleries, wrote labels, and interacted with […]
