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Great Plains |
grassland extending through the west-central portion of the United States. |
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What states were considered to be in the Great Plains? |
Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. |
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What tribes were the largest and most resistant tribes on the plains? |
Cheyenne & Sioux |
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What was the significance of the buffalo to tribes on the plains? |
Buffalo = Survival The Buffalo provided food, clothes, shelter, tools, and weapons. |
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Why did tribes on the plains not understand the concept of "land ownership"? |
The tribes were NOMADIC. The tribes followed the buffalo herds. Land could not be owned. |
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Who is a nomad? |
someone who lives by traveling from place to place. |
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What were some new economic opportunities that drew settlers westward in the mid-late 1800s? |
- Land Ownership - Cattle Industry - Gold Rush, mining |
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In 1834, what did the federal government designate the Great Plains as? |
One large reservation for Native American tribes. |
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In the 1850s, why did the federal government create boundaries for each tribe? |
Allowed for railroad expansion. |
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During what event did the Cheyenne tribe experience a mass killing of 150 people by US troops led by Col. Chivington? |
Massacre at Sand Creek (1864) |
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What was The Treaty of Ft. Laramie (1868)? |
- Temporary peace between the US government & Native American tribes. Sioux was forced to live along the Missouri River. Never signed by Sitting Bull (Sioux Leader) |
