RESOURCES
While Alexa and Siri haven't yet discovered many of the more remote destinations in the Sandhills, the DeLorme Nebraska Atlas and Gazetteer remains easy to find. This 56-page atlas shows the back roads, state wildlife areas, state parks, national wildlife refuges, national forests, and wilderness areas.
It should get you just about anywhere you want to go.
Please respect private property and stay on designated roadways. More than 95% of the land within the region is owned by generational ranchers who have conserved the native grasslands and wetlands for 135 years. They deserve our gratitude. So do the previous inhabitants of this land, including the Pawnee, Ponca, Lakota, and Cheyenne, who still legally own significant portions of it. Reading their stories opens our hearts to the spirit of the landscape.
Guidebooks and Cultural Histories
Ann Bleed and Charles Flowerday, Editors. Atlas of the Sand Hills.
Dee Brown. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
John Farrar. Wildflowers of Nebraska and the Great Plains.
George Dorsey. The Pawnee Mythology.
Paul Johnsgard. This Fragile Land: A Natural History of the Sandhills.
Kelly Kindscher. Edible Wild Plants of the Great Plains.
Wayne Molhoff. Second Nebraska Breeding Bird Atlas.
Mark Monroe. An Indian in White America.
John Neihardt. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux.
Nebraska Historical Society. Archaeology of the Sand Hills.
Caroline Sandoz Pifer. Son of old Jules.
Mari Sandoz. Old Jules.
David Wishart. An Unspeakable Sadness, the Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians.
Contributing
The following nonprofits support wildlife habitat preservation within the region, educational opportunities for local residents, and recovery of lands legally deeded to indigenous peoples by the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie. There are many other worthy groups. Please feel free to recommend them:
American Indian College Fund
Audubon Nebraska
Friends of Sandhills Wildlife Refuges
Indigenous Lands Recovery Fund
Native American Heritage Foundation
Native American Rights Fund
Nebraska State Wildlife Fund
The Nature Conservancy Nebraska
Sandhills Task Force
It should get you just about anywhere you want to go.
Please respect private property and stay on designated roadways. More than 95% of the land within the region is owned by generational ranchers who have conserved the native grasslands and wetlands for 135 years. They deserve our gratitude. So do the previous inhabitants of this land, including the Pawnee, Ponca, Lakota, and Cheyenne, who still legally own significant portions of it. Reading their stories opens our hearts to the spirit of the landscape.
Guidebooks and Cultural Histories
Ann Bleed and Charles Flowerday, Editors. Atlas of the Sand Hills.
Dee Brown. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
John Farrar. Wildflowers of Nebraska and the Great Plains.
George Dorsey. The Pawnee Mythology.
Paul Johnsgard. This Fragile Land: A Natural History of the Sandhills.
Kelly Kindscher. Edible Wild Plants of the Great Plains.
Wayne Molhoff. Second Nebraska Breeding Bird Atlas.
Mark Monroe. An Indian in White America.
John Neihardt. Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux.
Nebraska Historical Society. Archaeology of the Sand Hills.
Caroline Sandoz Pifer. Son of old Jules.
Mari Sandoz. Old Jules.
David Wishart. An Unspeakable Sadness, the Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians.
Contributing
The following nonprofits support wildlife habitat preservation within the region, educational opportunities for local residents, and recovery of lands legally deeded to indigenous peoples by the 1868 Treaty of Fort Laramie. There are many other worthy groups. Please feel free to recommend them:
American Indian College Fund
Audubon Nebraska
Friends of Sandhills Wildlife Refuges
Indigenous Lands Recovery Fund
Native American Heritage Foundation
Native American Rights Fund
Nebraska State Wildlife Fund
The Nature Conservancy Nebraska
Sandhills Task Force
Flooding aquifer, Whitman Road, 2019