- Fact 2 - The Great Plains area
covers parts of the U.S. states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana,
Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota,
Texas and Wyoming
- Fact 3 - Names of Border States:
Colorado Iowa Kansas Missouri South Dakota Wyoming
- Fact 4 - Origin of the name of the
state: Name based on an Otoe Indian word that means "flat water,"
referring to the Platte River
- Fact 5 - Features of the area: Plains of the central lowland in the eastern third rising to the
Great Plains and hill country
- Fact 6 - The Indians of
Nebraska were the were the Arapaho, Cheyenne, Comanche,
Chippewa, Delaware, Fox, Omaha, Fox, Kansas, Kiowa, Missouri,
Iowa Oto, Sauk and the Pawnee tribes.
- Fact 7 - Many of the Arapaho tribes
of Colorado moved to the Great Plains. The Great Plains Indians
lived in tepees. The name 'Arapaho' is believed to be a
corruption of the Pawnee word for 'traders.' Since 1878 the
Northern Arapaho Nation has lived with the Eastern Shoshone on
the Wind River Reservation.
- Fact 8 - The Cheyenne tribe are one of the
famous tribes of the Great Plains. The cholera epidemic reached
the Plains Indians in 1849 resulting in huge loss of life
- Fact 9 - The Comanche are believed to be one of
the first tribes to fully incorporate the horse into their
culture and to have introduced the horse to the other Plains
peoples. They were well known as fierce warriors
- Fact 10 - The Chippewa people were members of an
Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior. The people's
name, is given as Ojibwe in Canada but as Chippewa in the United
States. The Chippewa waged extremely violent war on their
enemies - they were so feared that the French considered the
complete annihilation of this tribe.
- Fact 11 - The Delaware: The Lenape,
also referred to as Lenapi or the Delaware Indians, are a group
of several organized bands who lived along the Delaware River.
The "three sisters," corn (maize), beans and squash were the
staples of their diet, supplemented by fish and game.
- Fact 12 - Members of the Fox tribe (Mesquaki)
spread through southern Wisconsin, and the Iowa / Illinois
border after constant battles with the French-backed Huron tribe
- Fact 13 - The Omaha were a war-like
tribe of the Plains area, they lived in earth lodges in the
winter and tepees in the summer. Their enemies were the Sioux.
- Fact 14 -
The Kansa tribe, also known as the Kansas or
Kaw tribes, originally inhabited eastern and central Kansas.
They were typical Plains Indians.
- Fact 15 - The Kiowa were a tribe of Plains
Indians. They were fierce, nomadic warriors. The Kiowa
worshipped a stone image, the taimay.
- Fact 16 - The Missouri lived near
the mouth of the Grand River in Missouri. They were, however a
nomadic tribe, that inhabited parts of the Midwestern United
States before the explorers from Europe arrived.
- Fact 17 - The Iowa, also called the Ioway, were a
Woodland tribe with some Plains area traits. The tribe
originated from north of the of the Great Lakes. The Iowa, the
Missouri, the Omaha, the Otoe, and the Ponca Indians are
believed to have once formed part of the Winnebago people
- Fact 18 - The Oto, also spelt Otoe,
had a Plains Indians type of culture. They were once part of the
Sioux tribes of the Great Lakes area, commonly known as the
Winnebago
- Fact 19 - The Sauk tribe were a member of the
Algonquian people who originated in the Fox River valley. Sauk
resistance to removal from their Illinois lands ended in 1832
with the Black Hawk War.
- Fact 20 - The Pawnee were a semi-nomadic tribe of
hunter farmers and a dominant tribe of the Great Plains people.
The Pawnee lived in earth lodges, hogans and pit houses which
were semi-subterranean dwellings that were dug from the earth,
with a wooden domed mound built over the top which was covered
with earth or reeds. When they travelled their shelters were
tepees.
- Fact 21 - 1830 - The Indian Removal
Act allowing the U.S. government to relocate Indians
west of the Mississippi River
|
