Waziblo

Waziblo lies in the southwestern Dakota and northern Nebraska country, a plateau of short grass, river valleys and wooded hills. Lakota bands hunted bison across these uplands and camped by the streams, using the wooded valleys for shelter in winter. Pawnee and Cheyenne hunters also crossed this country, and the rivers were the paths along which horses, hides and metal goods travelled. In the early nineteenth century the Lakota pushed west across the plains, and the lands of the Niobrara and Keya Paha valleys became contested hunting grounds.