Plains

During the Gilded Age in America, a new movement of techology and wealth spread throughout the country. Industrialization rapidly swept through the nation and urbanized many western areas including the Great Plains and California. White colonist took this as an opportunity to expand westward though this brought destruction to the native americans, while poverty and overpopulation in Japan encouraged migration to America to find their own riches. During the time period of the Gilded Age, the…

They are an unfriendly group and there were some tense moments. I remember specifically the Otoes tribe telling us this tribe would not open their ears. We also heard stories about them. They would roam the plains and beat up on anyone weaker than them. They are called the “Lords of the Plains.” When we first came across them, they were curious but not impressed at what we had showed them. We met a French explorer named Dorion who told us he lived with the Sioux for 20 years. He was nice and…

The Great Depression,1929 through 1939, made the most people in history be unemployed, helpless, and in desperate need of more jobs, food,clothing, and supplies. This disastrous event was also the longest lasting economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world. The Great Depression plays a part and emphasizes the hardships in Mildred Taylor’s historical-fictional novel Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry because the Logan family loses their jobs, they do not have a lot of money, and the…

Americans made their way from the south to the west for economic development. Even the Chinese who worked on the railroads traveled to the west furthering its diversity. Settlers from the east changed the face of the “Great Plains”. Buffalo and cattle that lived in these plains were wiped out by the herds. All the farmers changed the land by growing crops and wiping out the natural grasses and land. Because of the railroads, cattle became very profitable due to the ease of getting the cattle to…

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 because they lived in Nebraska and Kansas. They dried the buffalo…

In this T.E.K, we will cover information about the Native Tribes that lived in the Gulf Coastal and Central Plains. We will also go over the housing that they had and the modifications they had to make to live in their set areas. For all the Glossary words for the T.E.K continue reading until you get to the Glossary. In the Gulf Coastal plains, there were two different Native American Tribes: the Karankawa and the Coahuiltecan. Karankawa: The Karankawa were a Native American Tribe that lived…

research. We will study the black-tailed prairie dog population in an area of approximately 160 kilometers (km) within the Great Plains region of north-central Kansas weekly during breeding season of 12 weeks for 10 years (described in further detail below). My research team will observe twenty-five prairie dog coteries and their burrows (Hoogland 1995). The Great Plains area, the location in which we will…

The 1930ś Introduction: The Dust Bowl was a tragic event in the Southern states that impacted families as many people died and had creased financial responsibilities, but different laws were put in place to help people in the Dust Bowl. The Great Plains suffered a drought between 1930-1940. This drought was caused by changes in weather, farming techniques, economic and cultural factors. Many people suffered during the Dust Bowl including crops and animals. Dust pneumonia is a sickness that…

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…

They lost family, friends, their homes, food, water, everything. The Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. (“Dust Bowl”) Drought is a negative thing to people, and all living things. The dust killed plants, because it was dark for many years without sunlight, it killed animals because it…