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Plains Indian Life & Society

Plains Indian Life & Society. Moving West…. APUSH BELL WORK. Bell Work: Analyze the two views regarding the Great Plains “How could existence go on… If life is to thrive and endure, it must at least have something to hide behind.”

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Plains Indian Life & Society

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  1. Plains Indian Life & Society Moving West….

  2. APUSH BELL WORK • Bell Work: Analyze the two views regarding the Great Plains • “How could existence go on… If life is to thrive and endure, it must at least have something to hide behind.” • “I was born upon the prairie, where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.” • Which of these two views on the Great Plains has a positive outlook regarding the area? Which one is negative? What evidence is there to support your answers? • Both authors identify a certain aspect of the plains- but both have a different view toward the item. What item are they examining? • Which one of the authors would most likely endorse manifest destiny? Why? • Based upon your background info, try to guess who each of the authors might be. Be sure to support your answer with evidence.

  3. Results… • “How could existence go on… If life is to thrive and endure, it must at least have something to hide behind.” • -Beret: a Norwegian immigrant in O.E. Rolvaag’s novel Giants in the Earth • “I was born upon the prairie, where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun.” • -Chief Ten Bears: a Comanche from Texas, speaking to a group of government commissioners

  4. Main Ideas of Native American Culture • Native American Society- 8 to 9 million pre Columbian: by 1860- 350,000 • History of destruction: settlement, disesase, King Philip’s War, Tecmuseh, Trail of Tears, now Gilded Age • Organization- male dominate, chiefdom etc. • Rights of Passage- earning of stripes • Religion- polytheistic- shamanism • The Horse- nomadic and warlike • Displacements: These lands once belonged to the Kiowas and Crows, but we whipped those nations out of them and in this we did what white men do when they want the lands of the Indians

  5. Cultural Clashes

  6. Nomadic Tribes • The Horse • The Buffalo • Hunting Bands • Slaughter of the Buffalo • Herds & White Hunters

  7. Land & Treaties • One Big Reservation- the Plains • Intertribal Warfare • Horse raids & hunting grounds

  8. Tribal Life • Child Care • Learning • Stories and fables • Games • Youth & Adolescence • Horse training • Adult Social Roles • Men & Women

  9. Tribal Hierarchy • Chiefs • War- warrior • Peace- orator • Medicine man

  10. Religion • Sun Dance • Vision Quest • Great Spirit

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