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Great Plains
grassland extending through the west-central portion of the United States.
What states were considered to be in the Great Plains?
Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas.
What tribes were the largest and most resistant tribes on the plains?
Cheyenne & Sioux
What was the significance of the buffalo to tribes on the plains?
Buffalo = Survival
The Buffalo provided food, clothes, shelter, tools, and weapons.
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.
Who is a nomad?
someone who lives by traveling from place to place.
What were some new economic opportunities that drew settlers westward in the mid-late 1800s?
- Land Ownership
- Cattle Industry
- Gold Rush, mining
In 1834, what did the federal government designate the Great Plains as?
One large reservation for Native American tribes.
In the 1850s, why did the federal government create boundaries for each tribe?
Allowed for railroad expansion.
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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