Every tribe was different, although certain elements were<span> common to most of the </span>Plains tribes<span>. The true Plains peoples </span>were<span> entirely nomadic,.</span>
In the pivotal case of Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that racially separate facilities, if equal, did not violate the Constitution. Segregation, the Court said, was not discrimination.
