Frozen tundras‚ green forests‚ and flat rolling plains are all unique features of North America. Three different post-columbian groups thrived in these geographical regions by developing ways of survival. I will be talking about the Iroquois in the Eastern Woodlands‚ the Cheyenne in the Great Plains‚ and the Inuit from the Arctic/Sub-Arctic. First‚ the Eastern Woodlands has rich dirt which makes it perfect for farming‚ and the Iroquois tribe were the best farmers there were in the Eastern Woodlands
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From The Way to Rainy Mountain A single knoll rises out of the plain in Oklahoma‚ north and west of the Wichita Range. For my people‚ the Kiowas‚ it is an old landmark‚ and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain. The hardest weather in the world is there. Winter brings blizzards‚ hot tornadic winds arise in the spring‚ and in summer the prairie is an anvil’s edge. The grass turns brittle and brown‚ and it cracks beneath your feet. There are green belts along the rivers and creeks‚ linear groves
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With all of changes whites brought to the plains including everything from the idea of purchasing land to the introduction of whisky‚ life for Native Americans of the Great Plains became increasingly harder and harder. Whites were relentless in the way they pushed the Native Americans to their breaking points causing many internal conflicts something almost unheard of in pre-white times. Among the many pressures of the whites‚ the fact that the Great Plains Native Americans were a highly decentralized
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Even though all of the different groups’ style of hunting and food was disparate‚ they all shared similar general ideas. All of the First Nation groups hunted‚ this was the men’s responsibilities and was done in the summer time and occasionally in the winter. Small game(animal hunted for food)‚ such as birds or small animals like rabbits would be caught in traps or snares and bigger game‚ like deer and bears‚ would be hunted using various different weapons like spears and bow and arrows. Some groups
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conquered by 1870. The Canadians then signed a treaty in 1877 granting the Blackfoot three reserves. The Blackfoot have been studied by anthropologists since 1910. The first to study them was Clark Wissler who wrote Material Culture of the Blackfoot Indians. Lucien M. Hanks wrote Tribe under Trust: A Study of the Blackfoot Reserve of Alberta in 1950 which describes how the Blackfoot on this reserve were typically wealthy due
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Large ungulates roamed western North America up until about 7000 years ago. The herds included woolly mammoths‚ oxen‚ bison‚ horses‚ burros and camels. As the landscape of western North America evolved‚ animal species coevolved to take advantage of the rangeland vegetation. When the first people came to this part of the world‚ woolly mammoths‚ bison and other grazers still roamed. Evidence shows Native Americans hunted the large ungulates‚ as well as the saber tooth cat and other carnivores. These
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How did the Plains Indians solve the problems of living on the Plains? The first three lessons of this unit will lead up to an assessment which will look at your ability to select and combine information from different sources and to structure and organise this information in your work. You will be working in a group and individually to find out about the lives of the Plains Indians. The Great Plains were a hostile environment to live in and as a result the Plains Indians had to solve many
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Spanish in the 1500s and was given to the United States under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American in 1848. Because gold was discovered in Colorado‚ it attracted new settlers that caused conflicts with the Indians. This caused the Plains Indian Wars. Colorado mostly votes for Republicans but sometimes it shifts to Democrats. From 1976 to 1988‚ all the votes are Republican but it shifted in 1992 when they voted for a democrat. Then again‚ from 1996 to 2004‚ they went back
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During westward expansion many Native American Tribes were forced out of their homelands and moved into what was known as “Indian Territory” which is modern-day Oklahoma. The Cherokee‚ Choctaw‚ Chickasaw‚ Seminole‚ and Creeks‚ known as the “five civilized tribes” and the Plains Indians‚ which had been relocated to the western part of the territory on land leased from the Five Civilized Tribes‚ were moved into this area. Many of these tribes were enemies and were now being forced to live next to each
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Broad and flat‚ plains are well named. Some appear when glaciers and streams erode away elevated terrain; others spread where rising magma pushes‚ erupts‚ and spews. Some plains spill into the oceans‚ and others are bound by mountains on several sides. They all hide a tumultuous geologic history beneath their level disguise. The base of the vast Great Plains in North America formed when several small pieces of continental crust collided and welded together more than a billion years ago. As time
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