nsfw:racy: Possible ocr: - - 6 Indians ofthe American West When some people think of Indians, they picture a painted warrior on his pony, hunting buffalo and roving the Great Plains. Such tribes as the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Crow did depend on bison and built tepee en- campments where the hunting was good. But the image of Indians as wamor-nomads has been used to justify the dispossession of native peoples and continues to obscure the realities of Indian life in the American West. Here's a closer look. Background