Plains Indians

During the period 1800 to 1890, the Plains Indians lost their ancestral homelands to white settlers from the USA, leading to them being forced into reservations. This was due to reasons including the actions of the federal government and the US army, their own mistakes which affected public opinion of them and the westward movement of settlers due to the railroads and the discovery of gold. One factor that meant that the Plains Indians lost their land was the actions of the federal government. A…

known as Nebraska. The Pawnee were forced to move to Oklahoma in 1800 and most of them are still there today. The woman wore deerskin skirts and ponche like blouses. Pawnee men wore breech clothes and leather leggings. Pawnee was known as the plains Indians because they lived in Nebraska and Kansas. They dried the buffalo…

with cold winters. The ancestors of the Crow had spent the past 12,000 years hunting animals, gathering edible seeds, berries and eating them. Around the area of the Great Plains there were many sources of food. many of the…

Recovering the Landscape of the Ioway by Lance M. Foster goes into great detail about what Iowa, or how the Indians who were natives here called it, Ioway, was once like. Foster states that the state of Iowa was once a vast prairie, but today less than 0.1 percent of that prairie remains. He states that Americans typically associate the buffalo with the great plains, rather than thinking of them once being in the tallgrass prairie that once covered Iowa and Illinois. Foster, being a member of…

Sign language can trace back to 1541, when the Plains Indians developed their own form of sign language to be able to communicate with tribes who spoke different languages (“American sign language,” 2017). Although sign language was used by the Plains Indians, it was not until the 19th century that other places started to develop and acquire sign language. A few places including Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts acquired the language. Martha’s Vineyard sign language (MVSL) become frequently used…

The novel The Female Frontier: A Comparative View of Women on the Prairie and the Plains was written by Glenda Riley. Riley was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1938 and gained her Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1968. After she received her Ph.D. she went on to acquire he first teaching position at Northern Iowa University, where she held this position for 21 years. She also founded the University of Northern Iowa’s Women’s Studies Program. This wide range of knowledge on this particular subject,…

are individuals of the Great Plains Native American cultural group.” The geography of the area in which they reside influenced the lifestyle and values of the Sioux tribe. There are three main disunions of Sioux: Eastern Dakota, Western Dakota, and the Lakota. Many Sioux tribes were nomadic individuals who moved from place to place chasing after bison (buffalo) herds. Much of their lifestyle was built around hunting bison. The Sioux lived in the northern Great Plains in lands that are today the…

The Nez Percé were one of the most numerous and powerful Native American tribes originating from the Columbia River Plateau region, or modern-day Idaho, Washington, Oregon, and Montana. This region consisted of warm summers and cold, snowy winters. The Nez Percé lived a semi-nomadic lifestyle, moving with the food supply, fishing, hunting, or gathering wild plants for food. Fish, specifically salmon, was a staple. They practiced traditional religion based on Animism, which integrated their…

The name Sioux comes from Natawesiwak, that means enemy. The Chippewa gave this name. They were called themselves as Lakota, Dakota or Nakota, which means friend. These names are the dialects that their language evolved. They come from the area of forests, and the constant conflicts with Ojibwa enemies forced them to lead a nomadic life on the meadows. It was a nomadic and warlike people, and their traditional house was the Tipi, it is a kind of tent made of wooden poles and skins. In this era…

The Navajo The Navajo is a group of semi-nomadic Native American Indian people. They live in the south-west nation of America that includes New Mexico, California, and Arizona. Most of them lived in hogans. Hogans are cone-shaped buildings covered in clay. Due to their nomadic life, the Navajo wore clothes made from deer hides. In their later life, the deer hides were replaced with knitted wool. They are regarded as fierce warriors who often raided Spanish settlers along the Rio Grande River of…