Iron Confederacy
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The Iron Confederacy or Iron Confederation was a political and military alliance of Plains Indians of what is now Western Canada and the northern United States. This confederacy included various indiv
Canoes of the Hudson's Bay Company
Shoshoni (left) and Cree women, 1840s
Portrait of Eeh-tow-wées-ka-zeet (He Who Has Eyes Behind Him) a Plains Cree warrior painted by George Catlin
A print of a Karl Bodmer painting published in London, UK in 1840. It shows an Assiniboine camp with teepees, travois, and horses
Arapaho
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The Arapaho are a Native American people historically living on the plains of Colorado and Wyoming. They were close allies of the Cheyenne tribe and loosely aligned with the Lakota and Dakota.
Arapaho quillwork pouch, late 19th century, Brooklyn Museum
Arapaho dress
Ledger drawing of a mounted Arapaho warrior fighting a group of Navajo or Pueblo warriors, c. 1880
Ledger drawing of a scene from the massacre by Cheyenne eyewitness and artist Howling Wolf.