Plains

Key Ideas Concept 1 • Native American Regions Guiding Questions • How do the four Native American regions differ? o Generalization: The Pacific Northwest, Desert Southwest, Great Plains, and Eastern Woodland regions have differing geographies, climates, and natural resources. Each region has different natural resources (water, vegetation, animals) terrains, and weather conditions which greatly affect how the tribes conduct their day to day lives. Each region has different challenges and benefits…

lasted for eight years, and the “Dust Bowl” destroyed many homes. The Dust Bowl caused many people to come sick and disease ridden, and many people died because of the storms. During the summer of 1931, a severe drought hit the Midwest and Southern Plains. This showed to be a massive problem for farmers because all of their crops died. No matter how much they tended to the land, nothing would grow. The drought also caused dust storms, which destroyed many homes. “If you would like to have your…

The Dust Bowl was a time where dangerous dust storms damaged the agriculture of the Great Plains. One hundred million acres were turned into dust due to overfarming and wind erosion. Three major dust storms occurred in 1934, 1936 and 1939-40, which resulted in erosion and loss of topsoil. These storms hit Oklahoma, Texas, sections of Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico leaving many families nowhere to go .It lasted for almost a decade. Some say that this is the worst manmade ecological disaster in…

Apache Tribes are descendants from other Native Peoples from Northern Canada. Both Tribes have their own unique history which can be used still to this day especially because both the Navajo, and Apache arrived in what is known today as the Great Plains prior to Spain and Europe settlements. Navajo, meaning "the people," used their horses to attack the Europeans. Out of the Navajo, and Apache tribes, the Navajo would win the "most settled" award as they made dwelling and shelter in what is…

that swirling murk...We live with the dust, eat it, sleep with it, watch it strip us of possessions and the hope of possessions” wrote Avis D. Carlson in the New Republic (Ganzel). Dust Storms and severe drought destroyed many farms in the Great Plains states in the 1930’s. This disastrous situation in history became known as the Dust Bowl. Author, John Steinbeck, based his novel, The Grapes of Wrath, on the problems encountered by farmers and their migration to California during the Dust…

The ongoing drought in the Southwestern United States is driving water reserves to dangerously low levels, adversely affecting an agricultural system that will have ripple effects throughout the entire country, unless the farmers of this region can learn to farm without water they may not survive. I. Drought must be defined to understand the impact the current drought has on the Southwestern United States. A. In order to understand drought we must first understand what drought means. 1. Drought…

ENVCUL Module 9 Discussion Assignment Question #6 When Donald Worster refers to the “tragedy of the laissez faire commons,” he is talking about the rapacious depletion of a resource that isn’t technically under ownership and the consequences that result from the exhaustion of said resource. The example Worster uses is the U.S.’s western ranching industry during the late 19th century, which boomed for a brief period but then quickly collapsed. Its demise was due to ranchers, not caring about…

humanity. In Dakota, she tracks the affect that the emptiness and harshness of the plains has on herself and the local farmers and small towns. As she compares the environment to Benedictine monasteries, it becomes apparent that a person’s landscape has a surprising amount of influence on their state of mind and spiritual wellbeing. Through Norris’ memoir, as she discusses the manner in which the Dakotan plains have influenced the natives, she also touches upon the reactions that newcomers…

Arapaho Indians 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…

At one point, life in the Great Plains was as its name may allude, great! Farmers crops flourished and produced enough for the entire country to eat and export for profits. It was a picturesque lifestyle but this quickly changed. One day you awaken to something frightening, something so terrifying and drastic that your life will be changed forever. When looking out your window, you see not bright blue skies, but billowing clouds. They are unlike any cloud you have seen before and made of dust,…