Plains Indians

From Hollywood film to actual history, people now know that Native American Indians weren’t as bad as Hollywood liked to portray them. With such animosity between whites and Native Americans during 1864, Indian civilizations became substantially extinct. With the rising popularity and value of mining gold during 1864 and the years following shortly after, soldiers and white Americans increasingly began to overtake the Native Americans homes, reservations, food supply, and everything they owned.…

introduced cattle and ended the way of life for the buffalo and Indians. Approximately “30 million to 60 million” buffalo lived on the Great Plains before the railway (King). From 1875 to 1885 the herds were decimated (Quinn). Cattle moved in as the buffalo died and the “increase in the number of cattle led to overgrazing and destruction of the fragile plains grasses,” and they could not recover (“The Cattle Frontier”). The Plains Indians had used the buffalo before the arrival of cattle and…

TLAH 1: Native American Indians Early in the 19th century, the U.S. was rapidly growing. The only thing standing in their way of further expansion were the Native American tribes living in the area. The U.S. government felt the American Indians interfered with progress and should be pushed aside. The Plains Indians soon were dominated by the Anglo Americans. Their land had been taken away from them, and they were pushes in to reservations with force from the white settlers. There were some…

1990’s. This program was a privately run rehabilitation program for juvenile felons. On the VisionQuest website, they state, “Our history is rooted in American Indian culture. In American Indian traditions, the vision quest is a rite of passage that marks the transition from child to adulthood. VisionQuest has adopted many American Indian traditions over the years to help troubled teens and their families grow together.” In her article titled, “Putting VisionQuest in Focus: A Controversy Over…

desserts of the Southwest, but none compare to the Great Plains. The grasslands of North America have a tumultuous history that dates back look before the English setters arrived. Elliott West’s book The Contested Plains sets out to explain the history of the prairie, the rise and fall of the native plain people, and the rush to find fortune during the Colorado gold rush. The first section of the book, Vision, chronicles the rise the native Plains people. Beginning with Clovis people, West…

Along with Paleoindian and Archaic peoples, in the 1981 work O’Neill concludes that there are ten possible tribes to which rock art can possibly attributed to in specific ranges: Various Plains Apache groups, Comanche, Kiowa, Kiowa Apache bands, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Wichita, Pawnee, Osage, and Kanza. He also suggests that the sites “… could be measured in hundreds of years rather than thousands” (O’Neill 1981, 26). This is a broad range of…

After the Civil War, many people moved to the Far West due to its wet and lush territory, high mountains, flat plains, treeless prairies and great forests. These different societies that developed in the “Far West” included the Western Tribes, the Spanish, Chinese immigrants and white settlers. Firstly, the Plains Indians, the most powerful of the Indian tribes, adapted to the new environment of the Far West by hunting buffalo, which was a big part of their livelihood as they used it for their…

Around 10,000 years ago, the plains peoples were nomadic hunters that lived in the plains region of Canada. They would hunt deer, moose, and elk for food, however buffalo was what they mainly ate due to how plentiful it was. In 1497, John Cabot discovered Canada while looking for a route to Asia. This discovery attracted English, French, Spanish and Portuguese fishermen who opened up new cod fishing and whaling grounds off the east coast. In 1534 and 1535, Jacques Cartier, a French explorer, was…

those bands that sign Treaty 6. The clause was offered in order to convince uncooperative chiefs whose territories were suffering ongoing TB and smallpox outbreaks. The Indian Act was also passed on in this year. It was an oppressive colonial legislation that restricted Status Indians to their reserves under the control of Indian Agents.…

Americas first originated form Asia, they were seen as nomadic tribes that followed the animals and lived of them. Through process of migration and grazing, the animals found themselves crossing form Asia to North America, with the animals, came the Indians. The native Americans first reached America 13,500 years ago by crossing the Bering straight which is now not visible because of ice melting, some stayed in America and some kept on moving to form the Inca and Mayan cultures that we know…