Today Mr. Bruns gave us the Blog Assignment for the week, 9/11. We also went over the steps of putting our presentation on our website. We then started presenting our projects. Our first presentation was Cultures Clash on the Prairie. Lived from the Mississippi river to the rockies, main tribes were the Sioux, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Crow , Iowa, and Comanche, Didn't live in plains unitil white men brought over horeses,, buffalo provided many of their needs. Horses increased mobility. led to wars from hunters from tresspassin, Men became warriors, Women prepared meat, and hides, They also believed in spirists controlled natural events. No one could dominate by group, Leaders ruled by counsil rather than force.
Settlers push Westward; discovery of gold in Colrado drew thousands of miners, nining camps and frontier towns had bad living conditions. Government restricts Native Americans, in 1834 government passed made the Great Plains one Reservation, they still hunted in their normal territory causeing conflict, Massacre of Sand Creek.after the treaty their was still conflict so the Red river war began.- Talor Peterson
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