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The Great Plains is a broad expanse of flatland in North America. ... The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History (2011) pp. 272–279.
Stumickosúcks of the Kainai. George Catlin, 1832 Comanches capturing wild horses with lassos, approximately July 16, 1834 Spotted Tail of the Lakota Sioux. Plains Indians or Indigenous peoples of the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies are the Native American tribes and First Nations peoples who have historically lived on the Interior Plains (the Great Plains and Canadian Prairies) of North ...
The American bison (Bison bison) once roamed the Great Plains grasslands in vast herds. Their total population numbers were once in the tens of millions and spanned most of North America. [ 9 ] The dwindling numbers severely reduced their ecological impact.
The New Encyclopedia of the American West (1998); this is a revised version of Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West ed. by Howard Lamar (1977) Larson, John Lauritz. "Teaching the West in the Early American Republic: Old Chestnuts and the Fruits of New Research." Magazine of History (2000): 17-20. in JSTOR, historiography; Rodriguez ...
North West Company trade gun. Horseback Bison hunt. European demand for fur transformed the economic relations of the Great Plains First Nations from a subsistence economy to an economy largely influenced by market forces, thereby increasing the occurrence of conflicts and war among the Great Plains First Nations as they struggled to control access to natural resources and trade routes. [7]
The Potawatomi (/ ˌ p ɒ t ə ˈ w ɒ t ə m i / ⓘ [1] [2]), also spelled Pottawatomi and Pottawatomie (among many variations), are an Indigenous North American people of the Great Plains, upper Mississippi River, and western Great Lakes region. They traditionally speak the Potawatomi language, a member of the Algonquian family.
A New History of the American West: 'It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own.' (U of Oklahoma Press, 1991), a major scholarly survey, focused on the post-1890 far west. Wishart, David J. Encyclopedia of the Great Plains (U of Nebraska Press, 2004) online; Wrobel, David M. America's West: A History, 1890–1950 (Cambridge UP, 2017) online
Fauna of the Great Plains ecoregion — located in the Central−Midwestern & inland−east Western United States, and in the Canadian Prairies sub-region of south−central Canada. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.