Plains tribes

Cheyenne Tribe The Cheyenne tribe originated in Minnesota in the 19th century. Today there are 10,840 members as if 2014. During the Westward expansion the main tribes source of food was Bison.They lived in “reservations” where the goverment them to live in a certain area. Americans helped influence their culture by helping “absorb” them into another different culture. The Cheyenne tribe usually lived in areas around the Great Plains and parts of South Dakota. When it's around summer time…

but dried grass or other type of bushes. The Pawnee people were moved from there reservation in Oklahoma to Nebraska and Kansas were they live today. In the 18th century, more than 60,000 members of the Pawnee tribe inhabited the area along the north platt rive in Nebraska area. The tribe is made up of 4 different bands, band 1 the Chaui meaning Grand, band 2…

Before anyone embarks on this quest, they must first visit a spiritual man in their tribe and then undergo purification through means of a sweat bath. The use of sage during this sweat bath purifies the individual. Then, they are ready to undergo the three to four day vision quest. They are then given a buffalo robe and are stripped of…

them the religion and culture of the plains that they practice today. The southern plains had transformed them, not just physically but mentally too. They were able to stand up for what was right and were no longer slaves. Yellowstone was absolutely a magnificent place with lakes canyons, and waterfalls. It was a peaceful place but belonged to the wildlife that was living there. The highland meadows were the stairs that led to home or the “sun” on the plain that represents…

native American tribe. This is about Pawnees location. They had to hunt mostly Buffalo because that was the common food source for there area. The Pawnee could be found along the Platte river and the Republican river which is 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…

The end of the Plains Indians was caused by many factors, including the rising tension between the Indians and the settlers, decline of the Buffalo population, and the assimilation of the Indian people. The most important factor in the decline of the Plains Indians culture was the assimilation of the Indians. The tension between the Indians and the settlers had been built over many years. The settlement of the white men brought disease and death to the Indians and they were not equipped to…

looking at government policies for reservations, there are definitely early glimpses of the hatred and mistreatment toward the Native Americans, though also positive sides from government. An Indian commissioner Luke Lea made a recommendation to get the Plains Indians from specific reservations to move away from hunting, by his words, “reducing the amount of land available for hunting, he hoped to force these people to adopt a farming economy.” The purpose of these reservations by the…

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…

The Arapaho Indians were established in the 1850s.Since 1878, the Eastern Shoshone, people lived there.The Arapaho Indians lived in the Eastern Shoshone.The Eastern Shoshone was by the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming.The Arapaho Tribe spoke in the Algonquian language. The Arapaho Indians ate every animal they saw to stay alive.The weapons they used were bows,arrows,stone ball clubs,jaw bone clubs,hatchet,axe,spears,lances,and knives.Some of their clothing was soft, tanned…

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…