American West

Great American Desert

Plains Indians

What nations like the Sioux and Cheyenne move to plains

Life of Sioux Houses

Family life of Sioux: Men and Women

Family life of Sioux: Children

Family life of Sioux: Old people

Indian life structure

Custom and tradition

Chiefs

Councils

Role of warrior societies

Hunting the buffalo

Uses of buffalo

Sioux warrior features

Indian warfare

Reasons for individual warriors fight

Counting coup

Plains Indians scalp reasons

Spirit world

Circles

Sacred land

Visions

Dances and ceremonies

Medicine man

Way of life

Way of Life

Way of Life

The Mandans

George Catlin

Francis Parkman

Colonel Richard I Dodge

Plains Indians life in the scope of outsiders

Joseph Smith

Mormons in Kirtland

Mormons in Missouri

Mormons in Nauvoo

Conflict in Nauvoo

Brigham Young

Preperation for Jorney West for Mormons

Journey to Great Salt Lake

Causes of Great Sioux War

Events of Great Sioux War

Results of Great Sioux War

Indian Scouts

US army on Plains

Impact of Civil War

Total war

Winter campaigns

Battle of Little Bighorn

George Armstrong Custer

Planning Campaign of Little Bighorn

Battle of the Little Bighorn

Reno and Benteen

Custer last stand

Indian tactics

Crazy Horse

Destruction of the buffalo herds

Hunting buffalo for sport

Hunting for hides

Bone Pickers

response of Plains Indians to buffalo killing

government policy of reservations

Reservation conditions

Reservation opportunites

Political destruction of Indian culture