NATIVE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE, AMERICAN WEST (1840-1895)

AMERICAN WEST (1840-1895)

NATIVE AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE:

Nomadic Life:

Nomad:Memeber of people having no permanent abode, and who travel from place to place to find fresh pasture for their livestock.

The Native American life was based on the crucial importance of the Buffalo for human survival, and on the need to ensure that people coorperated to keep their society together, in dangerous conditions of The Great Plains.

• Native Americans were still nomadic when the first European settlers arrived in America- with each tribe split into smaller bands (of about 400.) The bands moved 6-8 time a year.
• Native Americans put their belongings into a Buffalo- skin bags called Parfleches.(Another example of how Native Americans made use of the whole Buffalo.)

They lived like this because:

• Partly because The Great Plains would not support their way of life in any one place for long, and…