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=The Native Americans of the Great Plains =

**__Group members include__: **

 * Aylin Bulan
 * **Mohammad Wallimalik**
 * **Keshon Suthakaran**
 * **Nayeli Guevara **
 * **Sadie Read**

A map of some of the native Americans of The Great Plains. The Great Plains are highlighted in green.

__Question #1:__
 * To the Native Americans of The Great Plains, the West was their home.
 * Buffalo was a very useful animal since almost all of its parts are use
 * Fur was a need tremendously for products such as hats

The Buffalo was very important to the Native Americans. The Native Americans used almost all the parts of the Buffalo for everyday needs.

__Question #2:__ The Native Americans of the Great Plains experienced issued with white people who invaded their land. They had fights with them since it was the Native Americans land but eventually it got all invaded.

This is a drawing by a witness of the Sand Creek Massacre. About 100 Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians were killed.

__Question # 3:__ The Native Americans' years of events range from 1861-1890 as following: (highlights of main events)
 * 1862- The Homestead Act
 * 1862-Dakota Wars
 * 1864- Sand Creek Massacre
 * 1868- Treaty of Fort Laramie
 * ====1890- The Ghost Dance - The ghost dance formed around 1890 and was a religious Native American movement. The first Ghost Dance prophet was named Tavibo. He preached that the white people that were invading their land would go away from there in order so that dead Indians could return. Their beliefs were that Indians would come back and enjoy a perfect and endless life. ====

Many buffaloes were killed by mercenaries that the United States sent. The U.S. wanted to kill the animal that the Native Americans relied on the most so they would eventually starve or move further to find more buffalo. Buffaloes almost had gone extinct in the west including the Great Plains.