Notes From The Frontier

Moccasins were the traditional footwear of indigenous peoples of North America and were adopted as the footwear of early fur traders.

War shirts are not only beautifully crafted garments. They are spectacular works of art and symbolized the very essence of a warrior.

They wore animal heads as ceremonial headdresses, and used the sources of their might—teeth, fangs, claws, rattles, testicles and beaks.

In the history of human warfare, horses have paid nearly as great a price as men on the battlefield.

Nature spoke constantly to Native Americans and they lived by its pulse and power, its cadence and dominion.

For those who have found an arrowhead before, there are few thrills like it.

We all know the immortal names of Pocahontas and Sacagawea, native women who played important roles in the formation of our early nation.

The Sun Dance is the most sacred ritual of Plains Indians, a ceremony of renewal and cleansing for the tribe and the earth.

Once upon a time, before European whites ever set foot on the North American continent, 75-100 million buffalo roamed the land.

The origin of Appaloosas is....well....spotty. In fact, the history—and the DNA—of Appaloosas goes back millennia and across oceans.

In Native American cultures, paint was power—spiritual power, physical power.

Dances with Wolves was not only revolutionary for the western genre, it was a watershed for Native American actors and actresses.

Native American cultures across the continent have universally regarded hair as a life force and a spiritual source of identity.

Before whites came to North America and native tribes integrated horses into their culture, dogs were common across the entire continent.

The buffalo was considered sacred to Plains Indians as a main source of their spirit life and sustenance.