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    lost village‚ a place where natives. The Spanish: They brought horses‚ which had the same effect on the Plains Indian economy as railroads did on Anglo villages in the Midwest. Comanche: They migrated out of eastern Wyoming‚ Shoshone people who had lived in the upper Platte River drainage. With horses‚ the Comanche moved south‚ hunting and raiding over a huge swath of the southern plains. Texas Rangers : They were organized by the Republic of Texas to go after the Indians.” They made sorrow

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    Arapaho History

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    moved‚ which is The Gros Ventre‚ The Arapaho and the main northern group. Arapaho is developing the bison-hunting economy. The major ritual of Arapaho is a complex form of Sun dance and it is similar to the Plains region. The hand game is a funny entertainment game and popular throughout the Plains. The playing method of Hand game is all players face to each other. Then‚ one player hides the object on he or she’s back and switches them try to confuse the other player. If the other player guesses correctly

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    The Turtle

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    Turtle was on a journey. This is like what people living on the Great Plains did. The environment in the Turtle and the Dust bowl was both arduous and painful. The highway was edged with a mat of tangled‚ broken dry grass. There were thistles and thorns on the way. The Turtle had his feet hurt and the grass made him hard to move forward. These uprooted grass were caused by the dust storm. In the reality‚ the Great Plain was suffering from the Dust Bowl‚ so the grass was also uprooted. And

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    on the southern plains. It came in a yellowish-brown haze from the South and in rolling walls of black from the North. The simplest acts of life breathing‚ eating a meal‚ taking a walk were not simple. Children wore dust masks to and from school‚ women hung wet sheets over windows to stop the dirt from coming inside‚ farmers watched as their crops blew away. The Dust Bowl of the 1930s lasted about a decade.  Its primary area of impact was on the southern Plains. The northern Plains were not so badly

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    What Caused The Dust Bowl

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    Many people fled to the Great Plains in hopes to savor the abundance of opportunities that came with the land. Unfortunately‚ they were only left to fear the land that was gifted for them. The deadly storm struck the already struggling Plains on March 15th‚ 1935. The Dust Bowl‚ the period of time where terrible windstorms ruined the soil and caused people to moved‚ lasted for a decade. This tragedy was caused by the Homestead Act‚ poor farming techniques‚ and the severe drought. In 1909‚ the

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    The Dust Bowl

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    took place in the “dirty thirties”‚ and came to the conclusion that capitalism was to blame. The inhabitants of the Great Plains responded quite differently than the government after the disaster finally subsided. Both the reaction to the Dust Bowl and the events leading up to it are good representations how greedy the American culture was at the time. When the Great Plains were first taken over by Americans in the early twentieth century‚ people saw opportunity. This land consisted of miles and

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    environment‚ among other things‚ shaped the development of the West beyond the Mississippi River and the lives of those who lived and settled there. Some examples of places that were shaped and/or affected by the natural environment are Texas‚ the Great Plains‚ the Rocky Mountains‚ and the California/West Coast area. Texas was one of the first areas past the Mississippi to be settled. Ever since the Republic of Texas accepted annexation in 1845‚ it was a truly "frontier" land in many senses of the word

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    these three were affected is difficult to discuss‚ but we’re gonna do it anyway. So sit back and relax‚ it’s gonna take a while. Now‚ first we should probably talk about what the Dust Bowl was‚ and what caused it. The Dust Bowl is an area in the Great Plains that had poor agricultural farming practices. It affected every state‚ but none as much as the states that were in that region. The figures of the amount of dust storms that happened in just a window of about 4 years is very

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    Apush Chapter 13 Summary

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    Chapter 13 Notes: Changes on the Western Frontier Native Americans -Native Americans of the plains hunted‚ farmed‚ and traded in traditional ways. -Plains people relied on the buffalo for a variety of survival needs -The booming of the cattle industry in the late 1800s contributed to the decline of the Plains Indians’ culture. -The Sioux (war-like plains tribe) resisted the efforts of the U.S. government‚ the army & the settlers to remove them from their sacred lands. -Sitting Bull &

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    The Conquest of the Far West

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    * Pueblos were largely free but still below the Spanish * Apaches‚ Navajos‚ and those who were captured or voluntarily left their tribes were at the bottom‚ they were called genizaros * This system represented Spanish pre-occupation * Plains Indians * This was the most widespread and diverse group of Indians in the west * Some formed alliances with each other‚ others were in constant conflict‚ some lived sedentary lives‚ some lived nomadic lives * Despite differences tribes shared

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