Posted by 8Brittany on September 23, 2011 at 10:35am
Started presentations today.Ch. 5.1:-Describe Native American culture.Lived on the Great Plains for more than a century. Were spiritual, and hunted buffalo and traded clothes and tools. Tepees were made out of buffalo hide. Tools were made from the horns. Families were together, same lanuages and boys became hunters and warriors. Medicine men and women. Buffalo skull was considered sacred.-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?Gold-Silver in Colorade in 1858. Mining areas on the Native American land. To be cattle ranchers and farming.-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?Government made treaties and controlled where the Native Americans could live and hunt. They had to hunt in their area. Assimilation- plan to get Native Americans to give up their beliefs.-Describe a cowboy's life.
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