- The Buffalo Soldiers & Indian Wars: Learn about the Black soldiers who helped
police the U.S. frontier after the Civil War! (Site by Stanford A. Davis)
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http://www.buffalosoldier.net/
- The Story of a Female Buffalo Soldier -- Cathay Williams, who enlisted
as a man named "William Cathay." (Links from The Women's History
Section of The History Net.)
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http://womenshistory.about.com/library/ency/blwh_female_buffalo_soldier.htm?once=true&
- The Plains Indians' Fates When the West Was Settled: Sand Creek Massacre -- A site Dedicated to the
Indians. (Site by Storm Wolf.)
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http://members.tripod.com/~stormwolf_2/sandcreek.html
- Utley's "Frontier Regulars" (there are only excerpts online at Google Books);
the description of the slaughter of Black Kettle's band, of Custer's defeat,
of Red Cloud's band's heroic war ("The fighting men of this country have not
come in for rations, and you will have to fight them" is what one elder told
the army out there before the war), of horrible relations with the Kiowa
plagued by a 'welfare' system (way too much welfare) which included supplying
Kiowa raiders with guns with which to kill Buffalo and
Bison seems to be missing from this excerpt -- but there is information about
everyday soldiers' lives; Utley who wrote this as the Great Plains conflicts
ended has researched this carefully & while telling the story of the soldiers
he is not wholly unsympathetic to the Indians; in fact, Utley is quite fair)
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http://books.google.com/books?id=ojYrdQ-IBaMC&lpg=PP1&ots=zpyZV0wo2R&dq=Frontier%20Regulars%20Utley&pg=PA28#PPA28,M1
- Edgar Allen Poe's poem, "Eldorado" (Courtesy of the Poe Society of
Baltimore! The poem was previously published in The Works of the
Late Edgar Allen Poe, 1850, vol. II: p. 45; and in "Flag of Our
Union," Boston, 1849.) (This poem explores a search for an
imaginary 'golden land' -- the search that may have inspired the
European migration west, as the Spaniards in particular, and later,
during the Gold Rush, the Europeans in the United States, kept
searching for a land of gold!)
- http://www.eapoe.org/works/poems/eldrdoa.htm
- Coyote's Adventures on the Great Plains (from Dave Welker's site at
Indian.org); Coyote was a favorite trickster of the Indians; this story tells
a fable about how two Indian tribes -- the flat-heads and the Brules or Lakotas -- came into being.
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http://www.indians.org/welker/coyotead.htm
- Cheyenne Sweat Lodge Frame -- image from the Curtis Collection (now being auctioned online). The sweat-lodge was part of a holistic ancient medicine ceremony.
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http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/displayPhoto.pl?path=/award/iencurt/ct06&topImages=ct06056r.jpg&topLinks=ct06056v.jpg&m856s=$fct06056&displayProfile=1
- Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence Describes the Plains Indian Sun Dance -- celebrated
on the Summer Solstice (or day of the year with the longest period of
daylight)! With pictures!
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http://www.crystalinks.com/sundance.html
(This page last updated 2011; links still need updating; background on this page adapted from efreebackground.com
http://www.efreebackgrounds.com/hu/wallpapers/wallpaper/flowers-trees-and-fruit-backgrounds/4709-prairie-flowers-near-east-glacier-park-montana
