The Original Indian Trails Traveling west of Independence‚ Missouri‚ the vast prairie began seemingly impossible‚ clear to the Rocky Mountains. This was Indian Country‚ inhabited by Plains Tribe Indians and millions of buffalo‚ as well as a few heady trappers and fur traders or mountain men as they were referred to. As the Indians followed the buffalo and other game‚ the rivers became their highways. Traveling by foot or canoe‚ a river could always be retraced to the starting point. The Original
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PLAINS INDIANS The American Indians are among the best known of all Native Americans. These Indians played a significant role in shaping the history of the West. Some of the more noteworthy Plains Indians were Big Foot‚ Black Kettle‚ and Crazy Horse. Big Foot Big Foot was also known as Spotted Elk. Born in the Northern Great Plains‚ he eventually became a Minneconjou Teton Sioux chief. He was part of a tribal delegation that traveled to Washington‚ D.C.‚ and worked to establish schools
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Plains Indians The American Plains Indians are among the best known of all Native Americans. There Indians played a significant role in shaping the history of the West. Some of the more noteworthy Plains Indians were Big Foot‚ Black Kettle‚ Red Cloud‚ Sitting Bull‚ and Spotted Tail. Big Foot Big Foot (? 1825-1890) was also known as Spotted Elk. Born in the Great Plains he eventually became a Minneconjou Teton Sioux chief. He was part of a tribal delegation that traveled to Washington‚ D.C.‚
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How the Indians solved the problems of living on the plains The Plains Indians were a people who had to survive under harsh living conditions. They were faced with many problems and challenges and yet they survived for hundreds of years thanks to their way of life. Each tribe was accustomed to different methods of survival; some were nomads and some were settled in the same place‚ but they all had similar attributes on how to survive. The Native American Indians main source of food was hunting
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tried to get the Indians to agree to living on reservations instead of on their homelands. For the rest of the following century they struggled to force the Indians to accept it‚ they failed to do so in the end and were forced to more desperate measures to clear the west for western settlement. The first policy was the Medicine Lodge Treaty‚ signed in Kansas‚ 1867. It divided the Great Plains into two huge Indian territories. In return for government supplies‚ most of the Indians stayed in their
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in the Great Plains region. During this time‚ the US government was trying to restrict residency of Indians in the Plains area as well as trying to avoid the spread of their culture. Technological developments aided the Native Americans in some ways‚ but it ultimately became a negative factor. In addition‚ government actions were astute in how they would mistreat and desolate the Plains Indians. With intention or no intention‚ both technology and government led to the ultimate downfall of Native American
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historiography view the West? How accurate is Turner’s thesis? What is your historiographical view of the West’s importance in American History? Five Important Groups 1. Miners 2. Railroads 3. Ranchers 4. Farmers 5. Native Americans (Plain Indians) Consider what brought them to the West‚ what brought about the conflicts and why‚ and how those conflicts got resolved 1) Miners California Gold Rush 1849 lead to an influx of miners seeking fortune Placer Mining: wash debris away to get
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Why did the plains indians loase controll of the plains? Indians lost control of the plains due to white settlers. Although there are many causes which could of contributed to the Indians demise‚ it is hard to determine the most important. Some of these factors i think significant than others. One reason of why the indians lost controll of the plains was the development of homesteading. Homesteaders would fence of the land which the buffalo used to graze on and the indians used to live on.
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West (434-441) The Western Tribes * Indian tribes were the most important group before the Anglo-American migration in the Far West * Western tribes developed several forms of civilization * More than 300‚000 Indians lived along the pacific coast among them were Serrano‚ Chumash‚ Pomo‚ Maidu‚ Yurok‚ and Chinook * When the Spanish arrived disease and destruction followed for the Native tribes * By mid-nineteenth century 150‚000 Indians remained‚ some lived within the Hispanic society
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faired better in that environment. one problem white settlers faced in the west was the great plains indian population. when america was settled‚ most of the indians had been forced westward. those indians were now on land that white settlers wanted. the beginning of the conflict between settlers and indians came whent he transcontinental railroad was being built. the railroad itself not only disrupted indian land‚ but the workers killed millions of the indian’s chief food source‚ the buffalo. the
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