The Lakota leader Sitting Bull defeated George Custer’s cavalry, but a sustained conflict with American forces proved ruinous ...

Native Americans performing ritual Ghost Dance. One standing woman is wearing a white dress, a special costume for the ritual dance, 1890. Photo by James Mooney, an ethnologist with US Dept. of ...

SCOTCH PLAINS — The dancers from the Shubanjali School of Performing Arts return to the Scotch Plains Public Library on Saturday, March 27 at 3 p.m. Under the direction of School Director Suba Parmar, ...

A funny thing happened on the way to the disappearance of the Indians of the North American Plains. Citizens and officials in both the United States and Canada agreed, of course, that the natives were ...

The attribution of Sioux primacy in the Plains Indian wars of the nineteenth century rests upon numerical superiority rather than actual battles fought and casualties taken. Through ethnogenesis, the ...