Great Plains Anywhere

The middle of the U.S. is certainly not the middle of nowhere. Discover the vast Great Plains via interviews and presentations from experts from all sorts of fields. These Paul A. Olson lectures were created by the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska. These are also uploaded as videos at: go.unl.edu/gplectures

Book cover of A Sacred People: Indigenous Governance, Traditional Leadership, and the Warriors of the Cheyenne Nation by Leo K. Killsback
Americas

A Sacred People: Indigenous Governance, Traditional Leadership, and the Warriors of the Cheyenne Nation

Killsback, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, reconstructs and rekindles an ancient Cheyenne world–ways of living and thinking that became casualties of colonization and forced assimilation. Spanning more than a millennium of antiquity and recovering stories and ideas interpreted from a Cheyenne worldview, the works’ joint purpose is rooted as much in a decolonization roadmap as it is in preservation of culture and identity for the next generations of Cheyenne people. […Learn More]

History

Lakota America: A New History of Indigenous Power

The first comprehensive history of the Lakota Indians and their profound role in shaping America’s history

This first complete account of the Lakota Indians traces their rich and often surprising history from the early sixteenth to the early twenty-first century. Pekka H m l inen explores the Lakotas’ roots as marginal hunter-gatherers and reveals how they reinvented themselves twice: first as a river people who dominated the Missouri Valley, America’s great commercial artery, and then–in what was America’s first sweeping westward expansion–as a horse people who ruled supreme on the vast high plains. […Learn More]