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Sep 24, 2024 · Plains Wars, series of conflicts from the early 1850s through the late 1870s between Native Americans and the United States, along with its Indian allies, over control of the Great Plains between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Learn more about the Plains Wars here.
- Robert Wooster
The Native Americans of the Plains were ultimately defeated and contained by white settlers, who outnumbered them, had more technology, more money, and who destroyed their traditional way of...
Plains Wars, Series of conflicts from the early 1850s through the late 1870s between Native Americans and the U.S. and its Indian allies over control of the Great Plains between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains.
By 1500, some Eastern Shoshone had crossed the Rocky Mountains into the Great Plains. After 1750, warfare and pressure from the Blackfoot, Crow, Lakota, Cheyenne, and Arapaho pushed Eastern Shoshone south and westward. Some of them moved as far south as Texas, emerging as the Comanche by 1700.
Great Plains, major physiographic province of North America. The Great Plains lie between the Rio Grande in the south and the delta of the Mackenzie River at the Arctic Ocean in the north and between the Interior Lowland and the Canadian Shield on the east and the Rocky Mountains on the west.
Overview of the Great Plains; Factors encouraging people to go West; The early settlers; Discovering gold; Religious freedom; Who settled on the Great Plains? The problems for settlers...
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The Great Plains! The words alone create a sense of space and a feeling of destiny a challenge. But what exactly is this special part of Western America that contains so much of our history? How did it come to be? Why is it different?
