ceremonial clothing and headdresses prized by collectors. But the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) is home to one of the largest collections of a Native American art form ...

Anyone can love the mountains, but it takes a soul to love the prairie,” wrote Willa Cather, author of “O Pioneers!,” the ...

through Native American sign language. Colin Denny, a deaf Navajo man, will be using both American Sign Language (ASL) and Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), which was once so common across the ...

But there are also, though fewer, things of a darker mien, artifacts revealing caliginous corners of American history ... Not uncommonly, Plains Indians also made beautifully decorated, cow ...

For 10,000 years, Native Americans on the Great Plains had a sacred relationship with the animal, relying on it for food, clothing, and shelter. But with the arrival of European Americans and ...

The Dutch Reform Church out of New York wanted to give displaced native plains tribes ... opened.” The Indian Store still sells Czech Beads and tanned hides. Native American artists come in ...

LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - In a state rich with Native American history, a local organization is helping Nebraska acknowledge its past. Mannequins at the Great Plains Art Museum hung two handmade ...