This course explores the ecology and ethnohistory of the Northern Plains, the homeland of the Lakota (Sioux) people: Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming. The Lakota, personified by the iconic Crazy Horse, were successful and fiercely independent masters of the High Plains, archetypical of the nomadic buffalo-horse culture. They fought vigorously to retain their way of life. They were, however, ultimately starved out and subdued. A beleaguered remnant accepted relocation to reservations in the region where they remain, and still struggle, today.