Bear’s Heart at Fort Marion (via Smithsonian Institution) (click to enlarge) Bear’s Heart, unlike other ledger artists who used discarded accounting ledgers, had his own drawing book, in which he ...

On April 28, 1875, 72 Native American prisoners of war from five different Great Plains tribes (Arapaho, Caddo, Cheyenne, Commanche, and Kiowa) were shackled and transported by train from Fort Sill, ...

SIOUX COUNTY, Neb. (KOLN) - Buffalo Bill Cody is said to have killed Cheyenne warrior Yellow Hand near Warbonnet Creek in July of 1876. Two monuments now mark the site in northern Sioux County. We ...

In 1875, following the Red River War, the United States government ordered the arrest of 72 prisoners of war, including Cheyenne, Kiowa, Comanche, Caddo, and Arapaho warriors. Of these, 15 were ...

This photograph, taken in about 1875, is said to be of Medicine Water and Mochi when they arrived at Fort Marion, the prison where they were held for a number of years. The Sand Creek Massacre took ...

They were prisoners of war, 72 warriors the U.S. government forcibly removed from their homeland on the Plains in 1875 and put on trains heading eastward across a strange country, bound for ...

The collection consists of a volume, now disbound, of twenty-nine (29) drawings by Daniel Little Chief together with thirty-four (34) pages of typescript explanatory notes by Albert Gatschet. The ...

James Mooney collection / Series 3: Kiowa and Southern Plains / 3.2: Heraldry / Notes and drawings organized by tribe / Tsitsistas/Suhtai (Cheyenne) / Cheyenne models for Field Museum / Preliminary ...