Plains Indians
- Created by: Supergeek100
- Created on: 17-01-17 17:44
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- Plains Indians
- Went to war for horses & hunting grounds.
- Counting coup- honour
- Land was sacred & no-one owned it.
- Depended on the buffalo & migrated with it- nomads. Americans caused the buffalos extinction to starve the Indians.
- Lived in tipi's made from buffalo's skin. Easy to travel turned into travois.
- Tribe divided into bands with a chief.
- Dance important as it could contact the spirit world.
- Saw many things as cyclical in nature.
- Polygamy & exposure.
- Cycle of violence- peace treaty, settlers break treaty, Indians go on warpath & army sent in- all out conflict.
- 26th June 1876- battle of little big horn
- General Custer deviated from plan & did a 3 pronged attack- outnumbered & outgunned.
- All of Custer's men & himself were killed as he wanted all the glory.
- WHY-Indians were not on the reservation/Sitting bull defeated General Crook t rosebud river.
- Homesteaders disrupted buffalos migrating pattern & ploughed land which Indians believed was disrespectful.
- The reservations helped end the way of life, so did the US army and Gov. Due to manifest destiny.
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